Quotes About Strength

Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

The mind is a remarcable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

Once upon a time there were two sisters. One of them was really, really strong, and one of them wasn't.' You looked at me. 'Your turn.' I rolled my eyes. 'The strong sister went outside into the rain and realized the reason she was strong was because she was made out of iron, but it was raining and she rusted. The end.' No, because the sister who wasn't strong went outside into the rain when it was raining, and hugged her really tight until the sun came out again.

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.

something is always falling apart in me.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

In reality, you don't ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.

Sara: You are so brave, I tell her, and then I smile. When I grow up, I want to be just like you. To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. No Mommy, she says. You'd be sick.

She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.