Quotes About Strength

Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems.

Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest.

It is not the size of our problems but the size of our God that matters most.

When we face impossible odds, let us not look at the size of our problem; let us look at the size of our God.

It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.

You have to accept the fact that we don't always get what we want. Sometimes life kicks you when you're down." "So when that happens, what do you do?" "Well…I suppose I'd cry for a while. Ain't nothin' wrong with a good cry. Then I suppose I'd pick myself up and get on with my life, 'cause if I didn't, then whoever or whatever got me down would have won.

What I didn't know until then was that loving someone and feeling loved in return was the best exercise for the heart, the strength training needed to do more than simply make it through life.

Fascism is an Italian term that means "groupism" or "collectivism." The fasci in Italy were groups of political activists who got their name from the fasces of ancient Rome—the bundles of rods carried by the lictors to symbolize the unified strength of the Romans. The core meaning of the term fascism is that people are stronger in groups than they are as individuals.

The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A ritual lodge is no place for the well-meaning ineffectual.

I can cope with Ambrosius," came Mona's voice from the shadows.

Robin told only a little of her life, but she kept repeating in one way or another her wish for a home, as if she were afraid she would be lost again, as if she were aware, without conscious knowledge, that she belonged to Nora, and that if Nora did not make it permanent by her own strength, she would forget.

the ballerina on perfected toe Spins to the axis of a fortitude That is the sum of all her yesterdays.

Every man has a house-broken heart except the great man.

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

public display and operatic suffering—an in-your-face owning of one's vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of embarrassing and offending tight-asses is a powerful feminist strategy. Writing is tough work, I don't see how anyone can really write from a position of weakness. Sometimes I may start out in that position, but the act of commandeering words flips me into a position of power.

Appendix 2 Scriptural Confessions

Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree — deeply rooted to withstand all of life's upheavals.

The dreams of the broken are mightier than the wishes of the dead.

The horizon, to remind you of your courage, sends its gentle waves of confidence to kiss your feet.

Get angry, get furious but never crumble to resentment.