Quotes About Strength

Sometimes a girl has to stop waiting around and come up with her own fairytale ending.

Elderly women were as tough as nails but it seemed that men got softer as they aged; their emotions caught them off guard, as if some protective barrier had been worn away by time.

It feels like you can't breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you'll never stop crying, but you actually will.

A well-managed breakdown can turn out to be a good thing," he told Yao. "Try to see it as an opportunity. An opportunity to grow and learn about yourself.

She'd once been appalled to hear of women claiming PMS as a defense for murder. Now she understood. She could happily murder someone today! In fact, she felt like there should be some sort of recognition for her remarkable strength of character that she didn't.

But then there were the other times, unexpected quiet moments, where they'd catch each other's eyes, and all the years of hurt and joy, bad times and good times, seemed to fuse into a feeling that she knew was so much stronger, more complex and real, than of those fledgling feelings for Dominick, or even the love she'd first felt for Nick in those early years.

You can still bake a perfectly good cake while losing your mind.

filling her pockets with rocks before she waded out into life.

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Leonardo da Vinci: "Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

a quote from Leonardo da Vinci: "Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

life would go back to being unendurable, except-and this was the worst part-she would in fact endure it, it wouldn't kill her, she'd keep on living day after day after day, an endless loop of glorious sunrises and sunsets that Janie never got to see.

Cecilia had noticed that beautiful woman held themselves differently; they swayed like palm trees in the breeze of all that attention. Cecilia wanted her daughters to run and stride and stomp. She didn't want Polly to bloody sway.

They probably felt like it was the end of the world. But it turned out to be the making of them. The lowest point of your life can lead to the highest.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve." Good one, Leonardo. But the more I think about it, the more I think that maybe I wouldn't say anything motivational at all. It's quite possible that I might briskly slap my hands against my knees and say, "Sounds like it's time you gave up.

every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

now her voice was loud and clear. "This can happen to anyone.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve." Good one, Leonardo.

But then there were the other times, unexpected quiet moments, where they'd catch each other's eyes, and all the years of hurt and joy, bad times and good times, seemed to fuse into a feeling that she knew was so much stronger, more complex and real, than any of those fledgling feelings for Dominick, or even the love she'd first felt for Nick in those early years.

The girl said, 'Sometimes you locked me in my room with only water. I had to ration the water. That was a terrible thing to do to a little girl. I thought I would be there forever. I thought I would die. I think I might have come close to dying. A few times.

Doing this always calmed her. It was like imagining the protective walls of an impenetrable fortress. She

Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. That's right, she thinks. We should all be raging and raving and brandishing our walking sticks: We don't want to go! And by the way, we want our legs and arms and backs to stop HURTING!! She will ask Thomas to find the rest of that poem on the Internet for her.

Good for you. Never forgive. Never forget. That's my motto.

You were sad and hurt. Maybe your heart was broken, but you weren't broken