Quotes About Strength

Then it was only right that she do as her spirit told her, and let the struggle itself answer the question of which was the stronger: her will or her womanly nature.

You have a beauty of a sort," he said. "But more important than that, you have enough manly strength in you to match me.

Yet we lift our feet. We lift our feet.

Some women, Ester, like to believe their hearts are made of glass, which must shatter if they so much as think of a sin. Oh Ester, shatter

Yet will you love a woman, if she prizes truth over softness?

Yet a moment later she resumed walking with the air of someone too depleted for skepticism—her defeat displaced, unaccountably, by trust.

Her spirit could not be bent, yet her rage found little purchase . . .

She pressed her fingertips into the hard wood of the handrail until they whitened. She would constrict the world to a pinhole.

The fire had forged them both—she and her brother—into brittle instruments. Should she bend, she would break.

A woman such as I is a rocky cliff against which a man tests himself before retreating to safer pasture

Don't--she bit her lip and held it. Don't turn your back just because it terrifies you. [...] I don't think I'm strong enough, Aaron said. Slowly the steam faded from the pub's windows. Helen was staring across the street as well. She said, How do you think people get strong?

Then must we abandon our accustomed notion of a woman's kindness, and forge a new one.

Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.

Rules you can bend give you nothing to lean on.

I'm diff rent! I'm diff rent! as if she were hurling a challenge with all her might beyond the limits of the sky.

S]he spontaneously threw back her head and trumpeted,I'm diff rent! I'm diiff rent! as if she were hurling a challenge with all her might beyond the limits of the sky.

For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

No matter how hard you try you can't stop us now...

For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light. The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret... It is a word...the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE.

I'd accept defeat. fighting doesn't preclude enduring.I can fight, and if fighting fails I can still endure.

Child, do you know where trult great courage comes from, the kind of courage that will never back down?' I said, Faith. And love, she said. faith is a kind of love you know. Love of what is unseen but certain. Love makes us strong and brave.

Chyna Shepherd, untouched and alive and able to pee.

Truly tough guys never say they're tough.