Quotes About Strength

lo que el mundo actualmente necesita es una inyección de la clase de sabiduría que las mujeres tienen

Jean Shinoda Bolen

La psique de una mujer Atenea es similar al aspecto no convencional de los vestidos "de buen tono": prácticos, duraderos, de calidad permanente y no influidos por los cambios de la moda.

Para las mujeres Atenea (como señalaba el exsecretario de estado Henry Kisinger) "el poder es el mejor afrodisíaco".

Only devotion prevailed against the terror. Love might and must yield in flesh, but never in spirit. The mother rocked her tortured child and was afraid of nothing but to be separated from it. Husband nursed wife in secret and in secret gave a kiss to the lips that would infect him. Whole families locked and bolted themselves inside their homes and defended the privilege of dying together.

you could well be right. But surely the answer is for women to become more assertive and not let themselves be subjected?

Dangerous enough to enter an unknown community when you were armed and strong; folly to do so from a position of weakness.

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we can welcome many people, even those in deep distress, and perhaps help them find self-confidence and inner healing.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

Non sono le grandi disgrazie della vita che esigono forza di carattere da noi. Chiunque può fronteggiare una grave crisi e rimettersi in piedi con coraggio dopo una tragedia, ma per sopportare le piccole noie quotidiane con il sorriso sulle labbra, ecco, per quello penso che ci voglia molto coraggio e determinazione!

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness.

I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness.

At times such as these, evenings in the forest, loneliness seized her like a black dog. She kept telling herself it was pure weakness, that she had to be strong to stay alive in this world. Her orphanhood hung about her like a cloak. You shall not feel sorry for yourself, she commanded, and then disobeyed... beneath the surface veneer of stubborn independence, she needed desperately to belong to somebody.

Petite taille mais corps solide, c'était un travailleur manuel de l'esprit, un prolo de la conscience thétique.

Je la sentais entre mes mains, ivre, décoiffée, volontaire, et je devinais une sorte d'effort de son visage pour ne pas disparaître, ne pas s'effacer dans la nuit.

Quando não há esperança, sempre fica o orgulho.

she looked ageless, with an appearance of intense hardness and ever-present violence.

Le poids de ton sac, c'est de la peur.

Il est né dans l'horreur, pensa-t-elle, et il ne craint pas de la regarder en face.

Il était plein d'un sentiment de puissance qui, après tout, était peut-être perceptibles par ces êtres intuitifs que sont les femmes.

Outside, it still smelled bad. I couldn't do anything about that. Neither could anyone. It was called life: a cocktail of love and hate, strength and weakness, violence and passivity.

Under the physical therapist's gaze, I am a Tour de France long shot on the verge of pulling off a record-setting victory. Success soothes my aching muscles. I am a phenomenal downhill skier. I can still hear the roar of the crowd on the slope and the singing of the wind in my ears. I was miles ahead of the favorites. I swear!

Have you all forgotten that I am Henry's spawn? And Anne Boleyn's . . . a name that does not pass my lips, but is forever on my mind? Who can doubt the courage of a woman who faced the ax by lifting up her long hair with a smile?