Quotes About Strength

Every palace needs a foundation, Askeladden. Make sure that yours isn't of human bones.-Hans Peter

it's all right," Celie said quietly. "Prince Khelsh's rooms are very small, and dark, and poorly furnished.

Jessica Day George

But there is one good thing about hearing your deepest fear spoken out loud - nothing else that made you afraid before will ever seem so large or terrible again.

This book is for everyone who has survived. You are not broken. You can love and be loved, despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world. Even when you're drowning and so far under, there is always time to reach for someone who will teach you how to breathe again.

You are not alone, she thought. Don't be afraid. You are beloved.

As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.

I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.

was truly happy, and at least for that moment, no man could take that from me.

You're the only one who has the power to be the best you, I thought. Nobody else can do that for you.

I believe the best revenge is to live.

What is courage?" I ask. "Bearing witness. That is a form of courage.

I spoke on a panel once with a famous new age author/guru in leather pants and she said that the problem with women is that we don't "speak from our power," but from a place of victimization. As if the traumas forced upon us could be shaken off with a steady voice- as if we had actual power to speak from.

You just remember to say, "Screw them.

I'd rather be a bitch than a doormat.

What does not kill you will make you stronger and more cynical.

I find it tiresome when people parade their agonies for public viewing; the last thing I want to evoke is pity. We are all the walking wounded, your pain is no worse than everyone else's.

The hour of need always brings the corresponding measure of power from God to meet that need.

He is commanded to be strong, with his only equipment the Word of God and implicit obedience to it! Such was Christ's equipment.

Know thyself is one of the fundamental commands that aim at human strength and happiness.

Care, responsibility, respect and knowledge are mutually interdependent. They are a syndrome of attitudes which are to be found in the mature person; that is, in the person who develops his own powers productively, who only wants to have that which he has worked for, who has given up narcissistic dreams of omniscience and omnipotence, who has acquired humility based on the inner strength which only genuine productive activity can give.

But in a psychological sense, the lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. It is the expression of the inability of the individual self to stand alone and live. It is the desperate attempt to gain secondary strength where genuine strength is lacking.

Jestliže má humanistické náboženství teistické jádro, B?h je symbolem moci ?lovÄ›ka, schopností, které se ?lovÄ›k snaží v životÄ› uskute?nit - není to sym­bol síly a ovládání, symbol moci nad ?lovÄ›kem.

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous.[3] Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.