Quotes About Strength

We all have, she knew, a place where we're not only most comfortable, but most competent

I need help.

Things are strongest where they're broken.

Young Langlois had sat down and gathered that power to him. The power that came from having information, knowledge, thoughts, and a calm place to collect them.

Chief Superintendent Arnot might hold power, but Armand Gamache was the more powerful man.

Gamache was the best of them, the smartest and bravest and strongest because he was willing to go into his own head alone, and open all the doors there, and enter all the dark rooms. And make friends with what he found there. And he went into the dark, hidden rooms in the minds of others. The minds of killers. And he faced down whatever monsters came at him. He went to places Beauvoir had never even dreamed existed.

Don't get me wrong, I believe in using your head, but not in spending too much time in there. Fear lives in the head, and courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one

the one-eyed man is king,

Some so weighty we carry them our whole lives. They can blight our very existence, or they can make us stronger. They can make us bitter or teach us compassion. They can drive us to do things we never thought ourselves capable of. Wonderful achievements, like becoming Chief Inspector and Commander. Or horrific things. Terrible dark deeds.

He sounded more confident than he really was. But Chief Superintendent Gamache understood that a leader could not afford to reveal his own emotions. He couldn't demand courage in others while quaking in fear himself.

I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.

Strong enough to grieve.

So that the boy grew an outer hull to withstand assault. But while those skins saved tender young souls, Gamache knew, they soon stopped protecting and became the problem. Because while the hard outer shell kept the hurt at bay, it also kept out the light. And inside the frightened little soul became something else entirely, nurtured only in darkness.

But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage

You'd hide behind a seventy-three-year-old woman? Are you that much of a coward?

Louise Penny

With patience comes power.

Because you can't be brave if you're not afraid.

You've seen worse, you've seen worse, you've seen worse," she muttered to herself. Harriet wondered if that could possibly be true. It was also a strange, though oddly comforting, mantra. One she knew she could use for the rest of her life.

Fluctuat nec mergitur." Every schoolchild in Paris learned those words. It was the motto of the ancient settlement of Lutetia. And of Paris.

Chief Inspector Gamache chose men and women for his team who might also be afraid, but had the courage to rise above it.

understand your doubts. They're what make you a great man, not your certainties.

She held Ruth's hand for the rest of the way, and wondered if maybe the key was not in being held, but in holding.