Quotes About Strength

O correr da vida embrulha tudo, a vida é assim: esquenta e esfria, aperta e daí afrouxa, sossega e depois desinquieta. O que ela quer da gente é coragem

Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading them. But there is an impulse within them, favored by their natures and reinforced by their habits, which they do not resist; it continues to propel them forward as long as they have a remnant of strength. He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.1 Leopold von Ranke

Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

En épocas difíciles, me habían dicho desde niña, lee, aprende, prepárate, recurre a la literatura.

Try to think about having enough left to break a bottle over it.

When Holding, clinging to the poop with five others

La meva salut és excel·lent, però estic carregat de romaços com una criatura malaltissa.

I didn't and don't want to be a 'feminine' version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.

Not having God with you is like trying to walk normally on one leg; it twists you, it must.

Sticks and stones may break my bones', as they say in the Middle Worlds, but with the right words you can build a world and make yourself the king of it.

You see, I do believe in miracles. I, who have passed through fire. I do believe.

Witches don't just quit

I know you don't remember her much, Narcisse, but your mother was very strong. Stronger than anyone I've known; strong and sweet as peach liqueur .

Working at King Henry's, and later at St Oswald's, I had always had to be tough on myself, and gentle on men. Men are so very fragile, Roy; so unused to being challenged.

She followed the highway across the bridge, comparing her own life to the river's flow, swift and steady. She'd weathered obstacles - near death, loss and betrayal - which were like the boulders protruding through the turbulent current. Those hurdles may have slowed her down, but they'd never beaten her

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

Still, the longer I was around her, the more I could see the colors of her mind and the recesses of her heart. There was a beast in there. But there was also a girl who was afraid of being a beast, and who wondered if other people had beasts in their hearts too. There was strength, and there was also just the determination to look strong. She guarded herself like a secret.

I could have been stronger," she said. "I wasn't enough to keep something so important.

You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.

There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.