Quotes About Strength

I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.

Forget about the ones who set you up to see you fall.

We know what it's like to need to hold on. We hold on to you. Which is to say, we hold on to life.

As that famous homosexual Winston Churchill once said, if you find yourself heartbroken, keep walking.

The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

She has been left to her own devices, and those are broken.

Oh, honey, she says when I'm done with my wallowing, it's like my grandma used to say: Just when you think life's got you in a gutter, a tornado will come along and destroy your house. And then you rebuild? I ask. Well, she never mentioned that part, but I suppose it could happen. I am not cheered up.

So we must buck up, put on a kind face, and get on with it.

it's not his body that changes right away. it's something inside. he says he wants to be a little weaker. i don't understand. i say 'thinner?' and he says 'no, i want to be stronger in a different way.' not because of me, but for me.

But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last.

It was an exquisite irony: Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die. Just when we were feeling strength, it was taken from us. This should not happen to you. Adults can talk all they want about youth feeling invincible. Surely, some of us had that bravado. But there was also the dark inner voice telling us we were doomed. And then we were doomed. And then we weren't. You should never feel doomed.

There are those moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

They had their beliefs, and those beliefs were stronger than any belief they had in him.

He says, No I want to be strong in a different way. Not because of me But for me

It is a dangerous thing with brothers, to think that you could be as strong as them, or as wise as them, or as good as them. To believe that you could have been the same person, if only you hadn't gone a different way. To think that your parents raised you the same, and that your genes combined the same, and that the rest of what has happened in all your triumph . . . or failure.

How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them-you go on the bridge because you trust it will not fall the fingers will clasp because we trust them to.

She is the weakness you think of as strength while I am the strength you have no idea is there.

Life fails. Songs don't always.

Dash is the kind of guy who's always had to

Whenever you're in the worst place, there is always a better place. Your abuser will try to hide it from you, but other people can help you get there.

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than we are to find it in ourselves.

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one, either.

But this is what losing most of your friends does: It makes you unafraid. Whatever anyone threatens, whatever anyone is offended by, it doesn't matter, because you have already survived much, much worse. In fact, you are still surviving. You survive every single, blessed

the killing blow is sometimes the softest