Quotes About Strength

Il faut avoir l'esprit dur et le coeur sensible

tu zostáva pre umelca jediným problémom neby? slabý v úlohe prijatej od Boha, ktorá je jeho úlohou: ma? umenie dos? silné a dos? správne, a tak by? vždy pánom všetkého, s ?ím pracuje, a nestráca? ni? z ?istoty tvorby: a vo svojej ?innosti horie? iba pre dobro diela, nedopusti?, aby tiaha ?udského alebo Božského bohatstva, ktorá napl?uje jeho srdce, poklesla alebo sa odchýlila.

I WAS BORN on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pépin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth. The midwife lined a shoebox with dishtowels and put me inside, placing the makeshift incubator between two bricks that had been warmed on the stove.

De fapt, am descoperit ?i am ?tiut foarte devreme c? trebuie s? te ba?i tot timpul. Pe toate fronturile vie?ii, pe toate mizele existen?ei, c?ci nimic nu este câ?tigat dinainte, nimic nu este dat, nimic nu e u?or. A?a e via?a, s?racii nu au niciodat? dreptate, se spunea în familie. Nu trebuie s? te la?i p?c?lit, ad?ugau vecinii. Trebuie s? ar??i c? e?ti b?rbat, supralicitau prietenii mei.

Drumurile în?elepciunii sunt marcate de curajul de a fi ?i for?a de a se putea confrunta cu am?r?ciunile neîn?elegerii ?i uneori ale solitudinii. Cel care le întâlne?te, care accept? s? le str?bat?, care se aventureaz? spre necunoscut, spre ira?ional, nu ?tie niciodat? ce va descoperi la cap?t, astfel încât va trebui s? accepte s? se iubeasc? pentru a putea fi un bun tovar?? pentru el însu?i.

It was no difficult to protect a citadel that had never been stormed.

Better to face the devil than have him at your back.

My heart was glass, daily shattered Your love the glue, repairing the tattered.

I don't know if I'm an action star or if that's just how things are shaping up. I would hate to be boxed into that forever, but it's probably just a strength as far as my type goes, and I'm fine with that.

From the very moment he had first laid eyes on her, his hearts had gone all aflutter. His stony countenance had never wavered, for he had been taught well never to be the sort of warrior to show a weakness, yet 'twas for a certainty he had felt all the giddiness of a young boy by merely locking gazes with her.

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.

Be real with Father and resist the urges to crawl back into your shell and silently endure lifelessness.

I'll be all right," Drift whispered. She leaned forward and pulled Rook into a quick, tight hug before letting go. "So will you. But you're going to have to trust." "Trust what?" Rook asked, misery welling up inside her. Drift was asking the impossible. "I trust you. I trust Fox. Isn't that enough?" "No," Drift said. "You have to trust yourself and try to give this world a chance.

Of course, I now see that good behaviour is the proper posture of the weak, of children.

That is how I came to think that heavy and hard was the beginning of living, real living; and though I might not end up with a mark on my cheek, I had no doubt that I would end up with a mark somewhere.

plunge ahead, put one foot in front of the other, straighten your back and your shoulders and everything else that is likely to slump, buck up and go forward, and in this way, every obstacle, be it physical or only imaged, falls face down in obeisance and in absolute defeat...

I shall grow up to be a tall, graceful, and altogether beautiful woman, and I shall impose on large numbers of people my will and also, for my own amusement, great pain.

Jamela Dunbar

Unless we rise up against the dark side of evil, The Crown and The Spoon will not survive.

The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

What has happened is what has happened. The past is gone. I was not the same person then. I was much weaker. I lived and breathed and hid in fear. That time is gone. I fear nothing. I have faced my fears and learned from them. The gods gave me that.

Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.

And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.