Quotes About Strength

All the women I knew carried some kind of blade, though they were not all metal, or even visible. Whether something had happened to them, or whether they had only anticipated it, it kept them awake the occasional night

Work will be your mother, she whispered; it will lead you through dark days; it will clear you a level place to rest at last.

Scared is what you're feeling, says Ma, but brave is what you're doing.

So much of motherhood is acting.

If I ever got around to loving anyone else, I thought suddenly, it would have to be someone who would neither muffle my thunder nor steal it.

From having nursed alongside a variety of women, Lib knew that self-mastery counted for more than almost any other talent. She

Then she lifted the breastbone and frontal ribs in one go, the raising of a portcullis. That made me tremble. How frail my own rib cage; how breakable we all were.

When I was as young as you are now I learned how to save my own life.

A lady lion-tamer put her head in a lion's mouth last week, and he bit it off. If a lion attempted to put his head in my mouth I expect I would do the same.

No entiendo por qué el dolor significa que te curas

Keep your heart infinitesimally small, and sorrow will never spy it...

The goal was to get sane, to get whole, to be complete enough to support someone else.

Love is it's own protection.

Love needs no protection; it is its own protection.

Love needs to protection; it is its own protection.

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world...

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

I may win and I may lose but I will never be defeated.

I don't feel at all brave,' thought Jack, 'but I suppose a person is really bravest when he does something although he is frightened. So here goes!

I'm on the side of law & order & right - & to my mind they're worth while running any risk for. Evil is strong & powerful, but I'm strong & powerful too, & it's good to try one's strength against bad men & their ways.

But, except for a good shaking, and some fine big bruises, Fatty was not hurt at all. His fat had kept him from breaking any bones!

bundle of poles.