Quotes About Strength

She'd found that most boys, even some not very bright men, understimated women.

Louise Penny

Louise Penny

Now you will feel no rain / For each of you will be shelter for the other,

Despond not, though times be bale, And baleful be, Though winds blow stout –

Knowledge wasn't always power. Sometimes it was crippling.

They need to fight their way out of the cocoon. It builds their wings and muscles. It's the struggle that saves them. Without it they're crippled. If you help an emperor moth, you kill it.

was read at the end of the ceremony. Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other," Gamache quoted. Now you will feel no cold For each of you will be warmth for the other Now there is no loneliness for you Now there is no more loneliness Now there is no more loneliness.

The one inscribed Surprised by Joy and, above that, A Brave Man in a Brave Country.

There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole".

She never had to save herself. She never knew she could.

Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

The Ouellet Quints.

Or worse, dwell in it. Take up residence in the tragedies, the pain. The hurt. To make a home in hell.

I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will come with bandages in her mouth And lick you clean of fever, And pick your soul up gently by the nape of the neck, And caress you into darkness and paradise.

What Three Pines had wasn't immunity but a rare ability to heal.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything." ? Louise Penny, The Brutal Telling

Where there is love, there is courage Where there is courage, there is peace Where there is peace, there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

If you died on the side of a mountain, it was in the middle of a selfish, meaningless act. A feat of strength and ego, wrapped in bravado.

There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

Equanimity and indifference. I think that's the worst of the near enemies, the most corrosive. Equanimity is balance. When something overwhelming happens in our lives we feel it strongly but we also have an ability to overcome it.

She was fierce because she was afraid. Of everything. The rest of the world saw a strong, noble lioness. He looked at his daughter and saw Bert Lahr, though he'd never tell her that. Or her husband.

How intimating became intimidating. It was subtle, and all the more powerful for it.

believing something was even more powerful than knowing it.