Quotes About Strength

You can still function as a living ruin.

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.

Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

I have found a way to beat myself I win by losing, something like that I'm told that I'm stupid So ok, I'll be stupid If I can't register the pain Then it's not there I'm not so stupid after all I'll show them

Life will not break your heart. It will crush it.

You can only take me so low. After that it just doesn't hurt anymore. Your words and blows lose meaning and effect. You lose control of the situation. I can withstand any beating you can administer effortlessly but would die from receiving. How? I have waited. I have paid. I have scarred myself crawling through the guts of the machine, seeing how it works.

I will not die. I will not break. I will not move. Face it. You'll go to your grave knowing you never had what it took to stop me.

I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.

I have gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain.

Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength.

It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.

I don't have talent, I have tenacity.

I want to be that which overcomes itself Listening to them makes me weak and small I watch them go out and fuck each other They tell me that I'm crazy The years scar me I don't want a smooth ride I want the crushing wheel

Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart. - from "The Iron

You are the reason I don't want to die all the time When I am with you life is worth living Time away from you is strange and full of pain When I look into your eyes I can see how life has savaged you It's ok if you fall I will be there to catch you Anyone that would want to hurt you Would have to kill me to do it I will never be able to pound words into lines To match the velocity of your presence

I will do to you what you taught me. I will pass my fingers over my scars and read them like Braille and they will tell me what to do.

I have felt the muscle pull away from the bone. For a time I was mislead into thinking that I avenge these acts of harm against me. I realized that by living and growing stronger on a diet of scar tissue, I had something better than revenge. I have the best of your bad situation. I am like the roach, the rock, the mountain. I will not die. I will not break. I will not move. Face it. You'll go to your grave knowing you never had what it took to stop me.

There's a great feeling when you're totally resolved. When you make the jump from being lonely to being only. When you're so totally alone and absolute.

If you're finding life to be the one thing that's trying to kill you, I want you to stay alive to rise with the sun and fight back.

It hurt to pull out the slivers but I knew that I couldn't bleed anymore, I had lost too much blood already. Now I remain, scarred and regaining strength.

Being non-reliant on people for contentment is a strength. Even when I feel like I want to be around people, I starve it out and make it die. I think it's the right thing to do.

My records are good friends. They're an army. Standing straight, in rows, ready to go. Prepared to neutralize sadness and the sometimes crushing pointlessness of almost every pursuit. My heart will not break because my records have built a wall around it.

Don't touch me I'll feel too good I'll fall apart The only thing holding me together is my pain