Quotes About Strength

Paula Danziger

I imagine there's a timid animal inside me...When it's afraid, I feel it tremble. It can't hear. It only knows the fear it feels. It doesn't have memory or an idea of the future. It lives in the present—the right now—and I try to remember it is only a part of myself, a small frightened thing I can pity. When I'm able to do that, something happens. The animal grows less afraid.

Writers sometimes don't realize that an inherently dramatic tale is made even more dramatic through focus, purpose, compression, and underwriting. They often overwrite the dramatic story, which paradoxically drains it of its strength.

Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl who stood up for herself and took care of business, who cut guys loose when it was required.

We can only go to the limits of ourselves. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone.

The first time I saw a narcissus pushing through ice and thriving, I thought it was perfect and wanted that kind of determination for myself.

It's not what you carry, but how you can learn to carry it. You need to heal yourself. Your child self too, Anna. Make room for her. Find a way to let her in.

I've sometimes thought that being loved a little less than others can actually make a person, rather than ruin them.

How some victims don't have even a whisper of no inside them. Because they don't believe the life they have is theirs to save.

The world needs an army of Wandas—strong, sarcastic, unafraid women who say what they think and act straightforwardly, without apology or permission. Women who roar instead of flinch.

Maybe that's the secret to surviving all sorts of trouble, knowing who you are apart from it, I mean.

i liked feeling strong and was uncomfortable knowing that had vanished whne he left. was my happiness so completely tied to him now that i could only feel like myself when he was near? i had no idea.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. —Frederick Buechner

They'd scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms—not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.

It's not what you carry, but how you can learn to carry it.

Sometimes the only antidote for pain is more of it.

I didn't quite know what to say. Kitty was one of the most poised and self-confident women I'd ever known, and here she was knocked off her feet and set spinning.

He also has more courage than a man, and more determination. He'll fight for what belongs to him, no matter the size or strength of his rival. If the rival has a drop of cowardice in him, he's dead already." I

The whip shouldn't have been more than a gnat for Paddy," Bishon Singh told me. "What do you mean?" "What is a whip to a lion? He must have been ready to let you go. Or perhaps you weren't ever meant for him." I

Where was that fierce girl now? I didn't feel any whisper of her stirring in me. I also had no way of knowing how much I was yet supposed to weather—when my father might return, or even if he would. The

Only trouble sticks to me with any regularity…but I'm learning to think that can shape a person, too.

The man who wants to marry me is very rich and strong. He lives near here. He built his house in three days." "A proper house or a hut?" he wanted to know. "A real house, with shingles and a pitched roof, and glass windows." He was silent for a moment, and I was sure I'd finally impressed him. "Three days," he said at last. "There is no wisdom in such hurrying. This house will not stand long.

In all my years of living in the bush, I had never caught malaria or any other of the terrible fevers or plagues. Now I was felled by something just as serious though more difficult to name—an illness of the spirit.