Quotes About Strength

Sometimes there's beauty in the tough words- it's all in how you read them.

Because as tough as she is, she needs something to believe in.

I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times.

The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.

And even though the ache of that heartbreak hurts like hell, it's so much better than feeling nothing.

She taught me from childhood that my mountain was waiting, and she never stopped encouraging me to keep climbing.

You are a survivor, and as that unwelcome designation implies, your survival – your emotional survival – will depend on how well you learn to cope with your tragedy.

for Christ's sake, stay alive.

A girl's life is the worst life in the world. A girl's life is: you are born, you bleed, you burn.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what an you do? You can't stop living.

You are all anyone could be. If anyone could have saved me it would have been you.

Não mais enraizada, mas dourada, fluida. Sinto mil capacidades brotarem em mim.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living. (Truman Capote, In Cold Blood)

Das ist es, was ich mit Violet machen will: Ich will ihr das Gute geben und das Schlechte von ihr fernhalten, damit wir nur von Schönheit umgeben sind. (Finch)

Worthless. Stupid. These are the words I grew up hearing. They're the words I try to outrun, because if I let them in, they might stay there and grow and fill me up and in, until the only thing left of me is stupid worthless stupid worthless stupid freak. And then there's nothing to do harder and fill myself with other words: This time will be different. This time, I will stay awake.

I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257-foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.

We must honor our differences while we find our own courage and our own strength the best we know how.

Survivors Like Us Then we see them. Others like us. Survivors. Jewish

He turned to her and smiled. "OK. And you paint. Men come and go," he said, wagging a finger. "Be good to yourself. What you have? Inside? That's permanent. Any man doesn't see that, doesn't deserve you.

Remember the good times---you'll need them during the bad," a family friend had boozily warned her at their wedding.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do- because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicyle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not -will not- break.

I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on.

the pain wouldn't be a live thing inside, tearing me asunder. My eyes felt hot and dry, but there were no tears. I was beyond tears. I turned