Quotes About Strength

Quote from Ashes-pg. 39 Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart. The greatest strength of all is daring to love.

It's harder to take a punch than to give one.

I have no idea how much I weigh. This scares me almost to death, but I'm working on it. I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead cuz when you figure out what's eating you alive you can slay it

The officer kicked the stool away. This time the rope did not break.

boom! powering underwater, mermaid made real I felt my gills growing I could breathe without air.

This is life with your head inside the jaws of the beast.

If you touch me, I'll cram your nose into your brain with the heel of my hand.

Laurie Halse Anderson

You been too strong," she said firmly. "I know about that. Strong starts out being the right thing. Your hands grow strong enough for your work. Your back strengthens under your burdens. Soon your mind becomes strongest of all; has to be to get through the hard days. " - Serafina Ashes: Seeds of America - Laurie Halse Anderson

Because we are superwomen. Because it's how we are. We're high, we're sleep deprived, and we're still doing all the shit. If my husband doesn't get his full eight hours, he'll mention it the whole next day, as if he spent the dark time keeping flesh-eating zombies from gaining entry to our house. Not middle-aged women. They get up from a bed they've never slept in, put on an underwire and some mascara, and do it all over again. And no one knows.

For a man who claimed not to care much for women, Mr Holmes sure found some strong ones.

Love was the thing that kept a person going past exhaustion, beyond reason, after hope was at its end. Grit

Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.

if she was finished.

A woman who plays by men's rules is a woman who ends up in a cage." "Or a coffin.

Womankind is imprudent and soft or flexible. Imprudent because she cannot consider with wisdom and reason the things she hears and sees; and soft she is because she is easily bowed. —JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (c. 347–407)

If you cannot stand the spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

The real teacher is endurance.

This is nothing of medical interest — a small chill. Diseases are not interested in those who want to die.' And then with one of those characteristic swerves of association, like a swallow turning in mid-air she added, 'Oh! Nessim, I have always been so strong. Has it prevented me from being truly loved?

Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.

The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.

Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.

Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.