Quotes About Strength

We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too, But very human beings, human just as much as you. It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

They hugged, pressing each other's arms, and their brief embraces buoyed them up - forbearance and grace passing back and forth between them like a piece of shared clothing, designated for use by whoever needed it most.

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

How profoundly grateful I am for the temperament which saves me from the wretched fate of those poor creatures who never find their bearings, but are tossed like dried leaves hither, thither and yon, at the mercy of every event which o'ertakes them; who feel no shame at being vanquished, or at crying out at the common lot of pain and sorrow; who never dimly suspect that the only thing which survives is the resistance we bring to life and not the strain life brings to us.

I should have been braver myself, shown you it's okay to get hurt along the way.

Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

though suffering rises up and shames me.

It is an accident that you are well-off, powerful, and content. Would I feel stronger if I saw you weak?

I will do it and do it again; I will never apologize. Why should I be sorry?

How much anguish can you tolerate?

As mulheres têm um incrível acesso à força e à sabedoria naturais se deuxadas por conta própria.

A expressão ideal de Marte e de Vênus surge quando eles se equilibram mutuamente. Nessa circunstância, Marte aprende a lutar a favor de outra pessoa, e não contra ela, e Vênus passa a ser forte, e não fraca, no amor.

being dragged along crippled over things as if broken-winged

Sometimes when almost everything is wrong, one thing is so right you would do it all again.

Nothing shines brighter than Black polished right.

Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn't mean the weaker one doesn't love the stronger.

Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.

No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Nobody's as powerful as we make them out to be.

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men. But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house. She let out her breath. I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.