Quotes About Strength

Se había esfumado el resto de temor, desvanecido el desaliento y la sombría preocupación que le habían atormentado como a un viejo senil y tembloroso, evaporado la niebla de tristes presagios en la que se había movido a tientas durante semanas. Ahora se encontraba en terreno conocido y se sentía capaz de afrontar cualquier reto.

Sintió como la sangre caliente volvía a darle vida y como se apoderaba de él la voluntad de llevar a cabo lo que se había propuesto, incluso con más fuerza que antes, porque ahora la voluntad no tenía su origen en un simple anhelo, sino que había surgido de una decisión meditada… Poseía para ello una personalidad demasiado tenaz, un temperamento demasiado retorcido y un espíritu demasiado refinado.

God gives good times and bad times, but He does not wish us to bemoan and bewail the bad times, but to prove ourselves men.

Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

Kintaro was a legendary Japanese hero who's gone by many names, but mostly he uses the one his witch mother gave him. He made some cooing noises, and a small flock of pigeons suddenly dive bombed me. "Just giving you some motivation." In addition to having strength in Herc's class, Kintaro also talked to animals. Now I realize a lot of people in Central Park talk to the pigeons—as well as rocks and lampposts—but when Kintaro speaks, animals listen.

Hercules came through the roof like a cannonball, his lion-skin trench coat wrapped around him. When I say cannonball, I mean both the metal ball and the type people do off a diving board. It was especially impressive when you realize we were in a five story building. Hermes

Think you can take me?" she said, putting up her dukes like a boxer. As a fighter, she made a great mage.

A man with a mace for a hand stood in front of the gates with a frown that undoubtedly took centuries to perfect.

Such was the texture of her marble. [In a description of Laura Trevelyan.]

The Lord must have been delighted to call Peter out of his obvious weakness into God's stunning strength by giving him a new name, Rock, designating Peter as a steady place to stand.

There are still days I need a hand-up from another journeyer. And there are still days I want to hide, since every season of life brings its set of threats, yet because of God's mercy and grace, I press on.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind" (2 Timothy 1:7).

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

Out of all the piles of dirt, garbage, and shit we have been handed, we can grow a patch of daisies.

Whatever your age, you are the right age to be coming out and telling your truth. Find someone to tell- and tell, tell, tell, until your lungs ache. Tell until you can't tell anymore. It won't take away what happened to you, but it will re-map your life and take away the power from the abuse and the abuser. You are strong and resilient. You are not alone.

Always remember that what was done to you has nothing to do with YOU. It all has to do with a sick perverted abuser that wants/wanted power- You are not at fault and you were/are a target- but it is not because of who you are that you were/ are abused. You are worthy, beautiful, kind, smart and deserving of love, care, passion, and nurturing! xo dr. p

Laura Davis, Allies in Healing: When the Person

When you hit a wall, just kick it in.

Got to lose control before you take control.

We promised that we'd never leave one another again, until we both knew we were ready to stand on our own. And this vow, through everything we were yet to go through, we kept.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

I'm going to promote myself exactly as I am, with all my weak points and my strong ones. My weak points are that I'm self-conscious and often insecure, and my strong point is that I don't feel any shame about it.

But all the heart break of her heroins had not prepared her for her own.