Quotes About Strength

I have learned to trust myself and so have the women with whom I sit in circle. We no longer choose to expend our precious life energy scrutinizing every facet of our beings to figure out what is wrong with us. Instead, we celebrate ourselves as gifted and powerful children of life.

I know," said Beth, hugging her tightly. "I know." She looked back fearfully at the black hole in the ice. Then she turned her back on it. Clutching her sister, she started up the bank on wobbly legs toward the car and the road home.

Sometimes she saw herself as a one-woman rescue operation

I ask Ama why. "Why," I say, "must women suffer so?" "This has always been our fate," she says. "Simply to endure," she says, "is to triumph.

she is bent under the weight of her burden

Wenn ich jetzt falle, stehe ich nie wieder auf. Also gehe ich weiter.

Simply to end ure," she says, "is to triumph.

Simply to endure is to triumph.

Sometimes when we're in situations where we feel we're not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.

My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

Back at the hut, all my sister, they start to cry. "No crying," my aunt says, very strict. "You cry only in your mind." But later, when everyone else asleep, I hear my aunt, her tears, they fall like rain.

She'd stand on her own two feet if she had to crawl.

Patricia McLinn

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

You big, stupid Marine

No, señor. The deeper you push the iron into them, the harder they fight you.

Dios, me estas ayudando demasiado. Me has hecho demasiado fuerte. Descansa un poco, deja que me hunda en mi dolor, permíteme llorar y lamentarme, permíteme enloquecer y gritar y darme cabezazos contra la pared.

Control.... is not what we need. What we need is to bend to the tempest like pine and palm trees - flexible, adaptive, attuned, yet fully rooted in our principles.

Faith doesn't have to be much. Not any bigger than a mustard seed... That small. Only that much faith you'll need in me, God says, because I am so big. I am the Great I Am. So have faith in me.

Never mind being afraid of eleven right now.

Don't you dare cry. If you do, then I shall, and I refuse to allow it.

Our characters are forged in fires we didn't build.

Ya?am?n oldu?u yerde umut vard?r.

I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose its way.