Quotes About Strength

It didn't occur to me that I never named my own mystery illness the spring before (except to misdiagnose it to friends as mono), because I'd been afraid to admit, even to my mother, how much I'd wanted to lie down somewhere and hide. Black women, tall and strong as cypress trees, didn't pull that. Pain and shame and cowardice and fear had to be kept secret.

The older you get, the deadlier you have to be and you use age to your advantage. You make it a strenght. Most of us are more dangerous the longer we live. If we didn't care about dying when we were young, we're not going to be too concerned about it when we have two feet in our grave.

We had nothing else - no money, no bikes, no summer camps, no vacations. Nothing, except one another. To us, that was all that mattered.

Without fear, there cannot be true courage

Whatever the answers, I am now pushed up against the Monster I've been trying to hide from. And suddenly I face two paths. Just two choices: Either accept this and allow myself to be violated all over again—remain the Anonymous Girl and hide even deeper behind my masks and coping mechanisms. Or this time stand tall. Fight back. Be seen. No longer the ghost.

But her so-called self-indulgence, her cutting everyone out of her life, had been an act of survival, not the act of a victim.

You are beautiful. You are strong. You are enough. You don't need to be anything more. Or less.

woman. Courage like a mountain lion. All of that is inside you, Tori Burton,

But her so-called self-indulgence, her cutting everyone out of her life, had been an act of survival, not the act of a victim. It took courage. Not cowardice.

sense that life has dealt Dusty more challenges than most, and that she's found a way to overcome and give back.

I sense that life has dealt Dusty more challenges than most, and that she's found a way to overcome and give back.

Damaged kids were like seeds landed in the wrong ground. Parts of them grew crooked. But they could still grow strong with the right care.

She wears chunky gold neck jewelry like battle armor and carries a leather briefcase for which some crocodile or snake probably gave its life.

Her goal in life is to help others cope with mental adversity, to show that one does not have to be irreparably destroyed by horrific actions of the past.

Loreth Anne White

Horrible, horrible things can happen to very good people.

Not goddamn dead yet. Like I told you, the day I need someone to brush my teeth, wipe my ass, put me to bed in diapers, is the day I stop living.

Buck up, buttercup, you've come through worse.

Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing

There is no animal more invincible than a woman

Don't you remember telling me that you're the brain and I'm the brawn? Naturally I expect you to do all the talking. And naturally I shall knockheads and toss people out of windows as required. Or did I misunderstand? Did you want me to think, too?

Maybe the brutal bedding had destroyed a part of her brain.

Había aprendido a evitar la tentación porque dudada de tener la fuerza necesaria para resistirla. Dejar que la curiosidad se transformara en fascinación sería el primer paso hacia la ruina

I don't need to be coddled and sheltered. I don't need all my battles fought for me. I do need to be believed in.