Quotes About Strength

Hate them more than you hate yourself, and you'll stay free!

She was a mighty woman, tall as he was, and built on aggressive lines, like a battleship, with a square squat head to which the iron-grey hair was bound as tight as possible in an intricate mystery of tiny plaits. He

Mourning is not forgetting,' he said gently, his helplessness vanishing and his voice becoming wise. 'It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the knot. The end is gain, of course. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be made strong, in fact. But the process is like all other human births, painful and long and dangerous.

Most oddly he was not frightened. That alone he had learned from experience. With the danger would come the courage.

Consider, o consider the lowly mole. His small hands are sore and his snout bleedeth.

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

When one's own courage is fixed in his heart, and when his resolution is devoid of doubt, then when the time comes he will of necessity be able to choose the right move. —from Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

I know that I was often tired or in pain, but you just work through it.

But how could they be tormenters if Branza refused to be tormented by them?

She had a different kind of boldness, a strength that did not defy that of men so much as ignore it, or take its place without question beside it - Urdda wanted some of that boldness.

And here she was, back where terrors could immobilize her, and wonders too, where life might become gulps of strong ale rather than sips of bloom-tea. She did not know whether she was capable of lifting the cup, let alone drinking the contents.

If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a Witch. You make your own rules. You are free and beautiful. You

A family is like a good roof overhead; as long as it's there you're safe from all kinds of storms and bad weather.

Running, I soon realized, was the best way to stay ahead of fear.

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart--never.

I am a black woman tall as a cypress strong beyond all definition still defying place and time and circumstance assailed impervious indestructible Look on me and be renewed

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

When the end of the world comes, it won't be the ones that cry who survive, but the ones who spit.

Can we cut the Zen crap for a moment?" I ask. "I'm trying to beat this bag to a pulp.

We routinely replace damanged parts of ourselves with new ones that are, arguably, more resilient, more able to handle challenges. As long as we avoid the trap of growing our skin so thick that nothing gets through, getting bruised can only boost our ability to cope with whatever life throws at us.

When our stoicism interferes with our humanity, we risk developing a wooden emotional life and an equally wooden personality. In contrast, the realization that our ability to work through pain makes us stronger than all of our efforts to exorcise it may in the long run alleviate its burden. It may enable us to take up our destiny as creatures whose very vulnerability renders us capable of inspired and truly awe-inspiring love.

Man living alone can do as it pleases him; if he lives among others he must bow the head to the good of all. Without strong leaders to see this done, the people will fail, the nation will break up into small, defenseless bands.

It takes courage to live in the midst of hate. And it requires strength to keep that hatred from eating your soul.