Quotes About Strength

He smiles, and I feel better. I hate that his smile makes me feel better, because that implies I'm weak, that I need the approval of others to feel okay about myself.

I found the strength to see her, to cheer her, to not look away. It was taking a toll, but it was a toll I willingly paid.

I feel as much belief in her as I do in God—I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

Am vrut ca iubirea sa invinga tot. Dar iubirea nu poate sa invinga nimic. Ea nu poate sa faca nimic de una singura. Se bazeaza pe noi. Sa invingem in numele ei.

Não tenho muito a perder. Mas, sem dúvida, vai parecer que perdi tudo.

The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it.

We are so much louder together than apart. We are so much brighter together than apart.

It is a hard cycle to conquer. The body is working against you. And because of this, you feel even more despair. Which only amplifies the imbalance. It takes uncommon strength to live with these things. But I have seen that strength over and over again. When I fall into the life of someone grappling, I have to mirror their strength, and sometimes surpass it, because I am less prepared.

Qué sutil ironía: justo cuando dejamos de querer matarnos, empezamos a morir. Cuando nos sentíamos fuertes, nos quedábamos sin fuerzas.

We are graced, and we are together, and the loneliness and the doubt and the fear. We are making it through.

Don't mistake evil for power. That's a bad mistake we all make. Thinking that it takes more strength to break the rules of human decency than to follow them, and therefore if we follow them, we have to be the weaker ones. Bullshit.

We have the defied the day as it was set out for us

It allows me to understand the strength it takes not just for A to be human, but for all of us to be human, if we want to be important not just to friends, but to strangers.

The important thing to remember is that I am not alone. On days when it's hard, I remember I am not alone. On days when it's easy, I remember I am not alone. That is what gets me through. Every day, it gets me through.

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.

She's holding it together, too, and I want to tell her she doesn't have to do that for me, because I might not be able to do it or her. I can tell she's also trying not to look back, but she does it - she looks over her shoulder - and the tears won't leave her eyes.

Budowanie charakteru nie polega na wymyÅ›laniu siÄ™ na nowo, a na dokÅ'adaniu do tego, co ju? masz. Do tych elementów, które sÄ… trwaÅ'e i mocne. Do tego, co kochasz.

Even if I didn't believe I was the kind of person who could stand up to the people who hated me, I wanted to be the kind of person who would.

Good doesn't triumph because anybody tells it to. It triumphs when we push it and carry it and shout it and embrace it until it triumphs.

They beat the shit out of me," he told people, soon after. "But you know what? I didn't need that shit inside of me. I'm glad it's gone.

En este sitio, en este momento, somos quienes queremos ser. Soy afortunado porque yo no necesito mucho coraje. Pero otros, en cambio, necesitan una valentía enorme para estar aquí.

These are all the moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

The important thing to remember is that I am not alone. On days when it's hard, I remember am not alone. On days when it's easy, I remember I am not alone. That is what gets me through. Every day, it gets me through.

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 service to ourselves.