Quotes About Strength

To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. "—I sometimes doubt if he's human," said Will, speaking his thought aloud. "It's probably all done with wheels.

Pick yourself up,Dust yourself off,Start all over again.

A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.

It struck her as extremely characterless for any human being to sit around waiting for execution. It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. The list of her small rebellions was endless. Surely there was room for one more?

She'd once told me that I was probably the only person on earth who'd be given more than one soapbox in their lifetime because their first one had been worn out.

another. I'm just

São aqueles que mais amamos que nos animam num instante e nos destroem sem se esforçarem.

My only gift can be this blazing blade, this knife's sharp constancy.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

To be asked by her to do something filled him with pleasurable strength, as if she called all his powers into play. He felt able to move heaven and earth, he said to himself. She was his enthusiasm.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Let's remember to honor the courage it takes to ask for support, to share vulnerable feelings.

EASY" Is there, we wonder, some virtue in being difficult?

Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy. (...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

When there is darkness there is no point to be down. It is your chance to shine!

A woman's passion is nothing less than the sea that tosses a man's ship, and to weather the storm he must use skill and humility to ride her waves, having given up his own course and dragged down his sails, letting the sea take him where it will. For a sailor who knows that there is nothing to fear, this is the greatest adventure of life, as he lashes himself to the mast, knowing that his surrender is his strength and the chance for his redemption.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness.

Survival of the fittest

The physicist glared at him defiantly but allowed herself to be carried without further theatrics.

Douglas E. Richards