Quotes About Strength

Libby is just a girl, but it was a girl of her age who raised the siege of Orléans in 1428 and broke the English army, and no one can say what a girl might have the capacity to endure or achieve.

There is something sacred about great suffering, and it is the sacredness that makes the pain endurable.

But personal safety at the expense of others was cowardice, and cowardice was a right only of small children who lacked the strength and experience to defend themselves.

Family is the glue that holds the world together, even when it's not a family of one blood.

black coffee so strong that its smell alone was sufficient to wake anyone in a coma.

Megan Bookman's

Her stories are often dark but never spiral into nihilism.

Harry Carlisle

THAT WE SHOULD MEET IN THE WHIRL OF LIFE THAT spins more people apart than together, that we should find in each other so much that was compatible, that we should lift each other out of doubt and out of weakness into conviction and strength, that we should fall in love in spite of being unable to consummate it physically, a love that was of mind for mind, heart for heart, soul for soul: This rare gift was priceless.

When you're on the run from the law, you need beans in your belly, tough-guy food.

Your cousin Paulie, he has prostate cancer. Who knew he's man enough to have a prostate?

I was born under a glass heel, and have always lived there,'" Tim quoted.

A terrible darkness has fallen upon us, but we must not surrender to it. We shall lift lamps of courage and find our way through to the morning. —Anonymous member of the French Resistance (1943)

Colt had never shown fear, never issued a complaint about pain, remained always the definition of stoic. This wasn't merely a scream of pain

Colt had never shown fear, never issued a complaint about pain, remained always the definition of stoic. This wasn't merely a scream of pain, but also of pure terror, and carried on it were words: "He's biting, he's biting!

Roots like an oak tree, Barney." He

Live, Katie. Live for me. Live for the girls. Live for us. As long as you live, we'll still live in you.

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

You bend the nail But keep hammering because Hammering makes the world

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We

If you are fearful about discovering your anger, remember that your power is buried along with it.

It was time to face those fears head-on and quit flirting with thoughts of failure.

it takes a hell of a man to replace no man.

Once she had her mind set on something she became an unstoppable force, forging ahead.