Quotes About Strength

I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.

we both stood a better chance if we took on the world together.

From the time the Joshua tree was a tiny sapling, it had been so beaten down by the whipping wind that, rather than trying to grow skyward, it had grown in the direction that the wind pushed it. It existed now in a permanent state of windblowness, leaning over so far that it seemed ready to topple, although, in fact, its roots held it firmly in place.

Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do?

Mom asked me if I was okay. I shrugged and nodded. "Well, there you go", she said. She said that sexual assault was a crime of perception. "If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't", she said. "So many women make such a big deal out of these things. But you're stronger then that", she went back to her crossword puzzle.

We're becoming a nation of sissies.

Just remember," Mom said after examining the blisters, "what doesn't kill you will make you stronger." "If that was true, I'd be Hercules by now," Lori said.

Dad said High Lonesome, as the area was known, wasn't a place for the soft of head or the weak of heart, and he said that was why he and I made out just fine there, because we were both tough nuts.

What turns to stone is inside you.

Marriage] made the hard moments easier and the good moments better.

She kept saying that the flood was God's will and we had to submit to it. But I didn't see things that way. Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail—the gumption to try to save ourselves—isn't that what he wanted us to do?

He never said anything, but I think he figured that, as when we were kids, we both stood a better chance if we took on the world together.

You busted your snot locker pretty good.

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

My favorite books all involved people dealing with hardships.

Most important thing in life," he would say, "is learning how to fall." *

The scar meant that I was stronger than what had tried to hurt me.

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, Dad said: They love the freighter people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

Don´t be afraid of your dark places, Mom told her. If you can shine a light on them, you´ll find treasure there

One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)

Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls

months pregnant. Dad, who had fixed

You have a mighty high opinion of yourself, I told him. The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that