Quotes About Strength

Then there are Root People. When I find someone who is like the roots of a tree, I know I've found someone special. Root People may be hard to find because they're

not trying to be seen. They do their work underground. But quietly and without fanfare, they provide help and support and nourishment. They are happy when I thrive. Come what may, they support my soul. They hold my soul up. A tree may have many branches and many leaves, and only a few roots, yet it is the roots that are strong, resilient, and powerful.

At eighteen years old, she found herself pregnant with my sister, and at nineteen pregnant again with my other sister. The abuse, beating, yelling, and belittling never stopped. At twenty-four years, she was pregnant again, and there I was, born into it.

The greatest gift I've ever been given is to be able to take care of my beautiful, amazing mamma—the strongest Root Person in my life.

I tell you when it's over. You don't tell me when it's over. Now get up again and look out the window.

One day, after yet another failed running attempt, I confessed to a good friend how frustrated I was about my sorry running chops. "Tyler, you've got it all wrong," he said. "It's not about the speed or the distance. It's about the endurance." I rolled his words around my mind and remembered Ecclesiastes 9:11 (KJV):

Wear your pain like lip gloss!

A pair of Blahniks and a girl can vanquish anything

I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me...<3

You have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman.

Tookie was loving Thigh-High Boot Camp. She thought the name was especially fitting because she felt like she was flying on a natural Thigh High.

BUT I'M NOT A VICTIM; I GROW FROM IT, AND I LEARN. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF.

perdre la vie, c'est mettre tout son courage en un seul geste. La vie, elle, peut exiger un courage de tous les jours, de tous les instants ; elle peut être, elle aussi, un sacrifice, mais qui n'a rien de flamboyant : si je dois sacrifier mon temps et mes forces, je suis bien obligé de rester en vie. En ce sens, vivre devient plus difficile que mourir.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Belief is like any other habit, the more you try to control and suppress it, the stronger it becomes.

You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.

To watch powerlessly while a loved one slowly gets weaker is awful. To grieve and at the same time to make the most of each day. Of the time one still has. One prepares oneself consciously and unconsciously for the loss one knows will come. In despair one can be anything but sympathetic and tolerant.

Not until you succeed in being really flexible and soft, can you become really strong and forceful. —Zen Buddhist proverb

Power Yoga is based on maintaining a flowing movement using breathing as an engine.

But where danger lurks, the saving powers also grow.

To maintain peace in the future it is necessary to be prepared for war.

I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.