Quotes About Strength

May Your Swords Stay Sharp! - Lan Pendragon

You will do well.

Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

Until you can, remember this. We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

Lan shook his head sightly He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

He had gone right through fear and come out the other side in some place cold. Anger was all that kept him warm. They could gentle him, or burn him to a crisp where he stood, and he no longer cared.

We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.

A man would know he had to walk through fire and tame a lioness with his bare hands every time he approached you. Every day an adventure, and every night . . .

Never prod at woman, unless you must, she will kill you faster than a man and for less reason. Even if she weeps over it after.

The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.

Well, the sword that could not be broken was shattered in the end, sheepherder, but it fought the Shadow to the last. There is one rule, above all others, for being a man.

She stood in one smooth motion, surprisingly pale where the sun not touch her, slender and hard-muscled, yet with roundnesses and softnesses that haunted his dreams.

And so we begin the game that cannot be won," Thom said, sliding the knife back into its sheath. "Courage to strengthen," Noal whispered, stepping forward, holding up a lantern with a flickering flame. "Fire to blind. Music to dazzle. Iron to bind." "And Matrim Cauthon," Mat added. "To bloody even the odds." He stepped through the doorway. Light

Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.

My love is gone, carried away, by the wind that shakes the willow, and all the land is beaten hard, by the wind that shakes the willow. But I will hold her close to me in heart and dearest memory, and with her strength to steel my soul, her love to warm my heart-strings, I will stand where we once sang, though cold wind shakes the willow.

Lan shook his head slightly. "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

An argument must have opposition if it is to prove itself, my son," she said. "One who argues truly learns the depth of his commitment through adversity. Did you not learn that trees grow roots most strongly when winds blow through them?

The Light save me from men who think with the hair on their chests.

Sing of Manetheren, the sword that could not be broken.

But we are alive at this moment, and before us is the hope of remaining alive. Do not surrender before you are beaten, Ogier.

Callandor shone in his fist until it seemed he carried the sun. Dimly within him, fluttering like a candle flame in a storm, was the surety that holding Callandor, he could do anything. Anything.

The secret, it turned out, had not been to harden himself to the point of breaking. It had not been to become numb. It had been to walk in pain, like the pain of the wounds at his side, and accept that pain as part of him. Two

Strong endures; hard shatters." Cadsuane

Sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying.