Quotes About Strength

All lives are heroic lives.

I wanted to go with him, to be on the stronger side, for him to spare me, like one who seeks shelter in the arms of the enemy to stay far from his arrows. It was different than love, I was finding out: I wanted him as a thirsty person desires water, without feelings, without even wanting to be happy

Often, I thought: "Surely this is it. He has reached the breaking point." He seemed at the very end of his power and resources. But he kept coming until I wondered whether I had not reached the breaking point. The only thing that kept me going was the certainty that without me there would be no one.

Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

If we must die, let it not be like hogsHunted and penned in an inglorious spot.

Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I must confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!Her vigor flows like tides into my blood,Giving me strength erect against her hate.Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.

Oh, I must keep my heart inviolate Against the potent poison of your hate.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

Life isn't about waiting on the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Even when relationships become fractured, or someone dies, the connections you have to your family are never lost.

Morale is more important than weapons!

Logic doesn't overcome pain.

A veces no está tan mal ser cabrón, mantiene tu dignidad a flote. Y en tiempos en que todo lo que te rodea es mierda, mantenerse a flote es importante.

La memoria de los detalles, Elena sabe, es sólo para gente valiente, y ser cobarde o valiente no puede elegirse.

Cairn Stone This is the rock he lifted to lay upon a cairn in a high place. This rock, warmed by the near sun, felt right, somehow, in his hand. He decided to carry it down to his mother, who lay in bed, recovering. It is so easy to please a mother. Just to think of her for a moment, from a high place, and to carry that thought to her in the form of a stone.

La fuerza, la inteligencia, la estupidez, la belleza, la cobardía, la debilidad son situaciones y papeles por los que, antes o después, pasamos todos nosotros. Quien abusa amparándose en la fatalidad de la vida o del propio carácter, una hora o un año después se verá atacado en nombre de las mismas inefables razones. Lo mismo sucede con los pueblos, con sus virtudes, sus caídas y sus apogeos.

I'll end up believing, like him, that everything is war and every mark a scar. She ran a finger lightly over the blade of a sword temporarily hung on the wall; the line it left on her skin, though distinct, quickly vanished.

The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

The hot water that softens a carrot will harden an egg.

Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.