Quotes About Strength

Lost what? Money? My table at Carew Tower? Your voice in the enclave, I added. Your tee time at the golf course. Trent sighed regretfully, but he was holding me tight. True. Money drives the world, but when everything falls apart to leave the underpinnings of our life bare to the scrutiny of critics and thieves, the only thing remaining, the only thing that can't be taken away, is the love you hold for the people you care about. [...] I have a very sturdy house, Jenks, Trent said. So do you.

He fears me because he is small. I will not meet him there. I will not shrink myself down to his size, or anyone else's, for their comfort. For their appeasement. -Cackle by Kim Harrison

I had to start living again, even if it killed me.

Mouse burger," I stated again, arms crossed and hip cocked. "A weenie little man with the courage of a mouse.

Easy," Trent said when I stiffened, and he lifted my chin, reading the strain I'd lived with for the last few hours, the fear. "Why is it harder when those we love are in danger than when it's just us?" he whispered, and I blinked fast. I wasn't going to cry, damn it. I wasn't!

I was broken, but I wasn't done.

He fears me because he is small. I will not meet him there. I will not shrink myself down to his size, or anyone else's, for their comfort. For their appeasement. -Cackle by Kim Harrsion

Practice . . . thou art my shield and sword.

shimmered under his tight jaw

Every native culture in North America has myths and legends about the bear, many of them tributes to wisdom and strength. "The bear is good to talk with," say the Yupik Eskimos. "If the bear wanted to speak with you, all it needed to do was remove its mask and there beneath was a human.

If words were water he could turn turbines.

La plata y la estaca me romperán el corazón, mas los hombres jamás me herirán.

And, you know, you never really summon all of your strength until you know that there's no way back, no way to go but onward.

And the old ones were burly people, as strong as bears or wolverines. One of Thorn's stories told how an old one had married a bear by mistake, and neither of them had noticed; their daughter told them about it years later, not at all pleased with them.

viriditas were no more than a cancer that the rock must suffer.

Thus the power of hegemony: we may be poor but at least we're patriots! At least we're self-reliant and we can

Hope would have to reside in something like this: hope to do some good, no matter how fucked up you are.

Robustness and resilience are in general inefficient; but they are robust, they are resilient. And we need that by design.

It's not easy to stay unafraid.

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring — that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

Believe in God, believe in yourself, believe in whatever it is you are trying to accomplish…believe in that order.

Matthew 9:22 (NLT): "Jesus turned around, and when he saw her he said, 'Daughter, be encouraged!

There is no life raft' you're just freaking swimming all the time.

What could a doormat rear but a pair of boots?