Quotes About Strength

My friend, if you are weak—worn out from work, worn down by criticism, weary of constant demands or disappointments—if you have come to the end of yourself, if you've been emptied of your delusions of strength, you're just at the right place to be filled with the goodness of God. You're finally fillable. You're fully dependent.

When I said no, she stood in the light. When I gave up, she said 'forever'.

Sometimes the hardest thing you have to do is fight when you'd rather just give up. You can't give up. No matter what. Not even if your heart is breaking. Not even if everything and everyone you love has been taken from you. You must keep going. Because sometimes, the fight is all you have.

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I'm only as brave as I have to be . . . and I do not want to have to be this brave.

She felt her future close upon her but unseen, like the sea behind the blowing veil of snow... She would follow Llyr's advice and face it a little every day...Day by day, step by step life would go forward. Eventually, the veil would lift, the cold would yield to the sun's warmth, and the world would be reborn. This dark time would pass.

Light with thee walk; dark from thee flee.

Psalm 94:22 tells us, "The Lord is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge.

Instincts are given to us by God to guide us. It takes a strong woman to listen to those instincts and ignore what the world says to do.

It's said God won't give us more than we can handle.

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

A woman is like a teabag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is.

There's nothing you can do about your mother, but it's high time you took care of yourself. Do whatever is necessary for you to be okay. Don't let your mother pull you down any longer.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself, the means of inspiration and survival. —Sir Winston Churchill

To forgive without expressing anger or disappointment is to forgive from a position of weakness. •?Forgiving from weakness only invites more hurt. It never quite catches up with the pain.

I have since learned that forgiveness does not protect us from past, present and future abuse.

I hope instead she rages!

Determination, the benign cousin of defiance, drove Lucy to continue enlarging her family to compensate for her lost children.

The sense of being at home in the world through social connection with others is a deep and pervasive Stoic theme. Stoicism, whether ancient or modern, sees social supports and not just inner strength as critical to how we surmount rather than succumb to adversity.

The only way for me to be safe and free was to be - be what my name decreed me. Enola. Alone.

Are there any "ordinary" women? I don't think so.

Where's your self-respect? Why don't you get yourself in control? Life cannot hang on the love of one other person; you have got to hang your life on yourself.

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