Quotes About Strength

Back off, Jack-I got four brothers protecting my ass,' and I just rode on by him

Not everyone is meant to charge through the world, carrying a spear.

THIS IS ME! MY FATHER WAS A GREATER WARRIOR THAN YOUR FATHER! YOU CANNOT EVEN LIFT MY SPEAR

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

But this morning in meditation, after I heard the lion roar YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW STRONG MY LOVE IS, I came out of that meditation cave like worrior queen.

I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it - I will love you through that, as well. If you don't need the medication, I will love you, too. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

Without bravery, their lives would remain small - far smaller than they probably wanted their lives to be.

Most of all, though, he asked his students to be brave. Without bravery, he instructed, they would never be able to realize the vaulting scope of their own capacities. Without bravery, they would never know the world as richly as it longs to be known. Without bravery, their lives would remain small—far smaller than they probably wanted their lives to be.

double-pumpin' it when you have to inhale two desperate gasps of oxygen with every sob.

I hope that your heart is strong within your grieving.

Bravery means doing something scary. Fearlessness means not even understanding what the word scary means.

There's this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.

Me peame laskma oma südamel aeg-ajalt puruneda. Purustatud süda on hea märk. See tähendab, et sa vähemalt pürgisid millegi poole.

The hardest part of your life is behind you now.

it's a mighty act of human love to remind somebody that they can accomplish things by themselves

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.")

Able to exist without regular doses of romance or flattery from my solitary farmer of a father. Able to cheerfully plant gardens of daisies among the inexplicable stone walls of silence that my dad sometimes builds up around himself.

You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.

This is what I would like to hold on to. Please help me memorize this feeling of contentment and help me always support it. I'm putting this happiness in a bank somewhere, not merely FDIC protected but guarded by my four spirit brothers, held there as insurance against future trials in life.

I know every inch of fear, from head to toe.

One must bear what cannot be escaped," she told Alma, as she rubbed clean her face. "You will not die of your grief—no more than the rest of us ever have.

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself.

Peg could handle anything—war, catastrophe, failure, death of a relative, a cheating husband, the demolition of her beloved theater—without shedding a tear, but great moments in sports history always made her weepy.)

I asked one Sicilian if those buildings were made of cheap concrete and he said, Oh, no -this is very expensive concrete. In each batch, there are a few bodies of people who were killed by the Mafia, and that costs money. But it does make the concrete stronger to be reinforced with all those bones and teeth.