Quotes About Strength

He closed his hand around my wrist and pressed my hand flat against his chest. "The way I see it, Elle, scars are proof we can survive.

The way I see it, Elle. Scars are proof we can survive.

So you reach this moment where finally, finally, it all shifts, you find a way to open up your hands and let go. When what used to matter stops breaking you so fucking hard; when you accept that empty place in your heart will always be there because only one person can fill it, and you get up anyway because goddamn it, one person who does not love you enough should never make you incapable of moving forward.

All the best art comes from the broken places,

More smiling. Fierce. I was getting a headache. I smiled.

once a woman is "able to stand alone"—as certainly the Tribune's star, healed by Dr. Leger, could boast—"then she will not make an imperfect man her god . . . Then, if she finds what she needs in Man embodied, she will know how to love, and be worthy of being loved.

Illness "controlled her without making her feel that her liberty was invaded,

Shit happens and its awful but its okay. We deal with it because we havet to.

It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.

I know it's so hard to stay open when you feel like closing.

It is unbearable—and yet I bear it.

It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

It is better to deny God, than to defy God. Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. To profess to be a lover of God and then to be dishonest to God, to the world and to himself, is unparalleled hypocrisy. Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak. It is born of strength and understanding.

Longevity is not whether or not you break, it is how well you recover and repair when you do.

A coward can be a hero, but a hero cannot be a coward.

A gazelle runs faster than us; cockroaches are remarkably tolerant of radiation; every being has some superiority; in remembering this, be very humble!

A hand with a sword is a dirty hand; a man with a gun is a coward man.

A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!

A lion or a tiger does not need bodyguards; only the weak and the coward need warriors to protect him! A king needs an army and soldiers, because he is weak and powerless. Wherever you see someone protected; there, you will see either the weak or the coward! Strong fist does not require defenders! Shining sword is not in need of protection!

A little happy house is the strongest castle in this whole universe!

A locked big door always kneels down in front of its little key! Every giant has a weak side!

A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!

A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!