Quotes About Strength

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

Do not be afraid to face your difficulty. Turn toward it. Lean into the wind. Hold your ground.

When we ask it about our current path, we must look at the values we have chosen to live by. Where do we put our time, our strength, our creativity, our love? We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration, or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation.

Even Napoleon Bonaparte understood this when, at the end of his life, he stated, "Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.

We've done this as human beings before. We're survivors. We have generations of ancestors behind us cheering us on, and saying, 'Yep, we've lived through some tough stuff too.

celebrate your survival

If we had been seeking strength through control over ourselves and others, we discover that was only a false version of strength, that truth and inherent strength appear in moments of deep silence and wholeness when we rest unshakably with things as they are. If we had been seeking beauty or love through others or in states that perfect our mind, this too comes whole and unbidden when desires and longings themselves come to rest. This is awakening to our Buddha nature.

Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.

the true test of awesome power is the ability not to use it,

Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.

There's a leaf clinging fast to a branch, though withered, it somehow holds on, and a single bird singing its song, though all of its kindred have gone. And as long as that little leaf stays, and as long as that stubborn bird sings, then autumn remains in the world, and winter must wait in the wings.

ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN BUT IT TAKES A GODDESS TO GET OUT OF ONE.

I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

Remember, courage isn't the absence of fear, it is the ability to act in spite of the feeling of fear.

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.