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52c412d All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. glitter gold lost poetry roots strength strong wander wither J.R.R. Tolkien
9deccb3 We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. strength unity J.K. Rowling
9c3fb34 Promise Yoursel happiness inspirational love optimism strength Christian D. Larson
3f1b3b3 Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it. belief bravery courage fear fears inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes strength C. JoyBell C.
3459977 I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. double-standards empowerment equality feminism flattery gender hypocrisy independence men misogyny rationality reason self-determination social-norms stereotypes strength women women-s-rights Jane Austen
7ad18d3 If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate. forgetting hate inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes letting-go life life-and-living living strength C. JoyBell C.
13dd10a There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. dignity elizabeth-bennet empowerment fear independence intimidation self-determination strength stubbornness women Jane Austen
83d9c50 Better to be strong than pretty and useless. girls inspirational pretty strength women Lilith Saintcrow
27351eb It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong. strength Jon Krakauer
f55c5cc Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong. inspirational strength tough-times Sarah Dessen
77e88af Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. courage inspirational strength Napoleon Bonaparte
b3140af Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason. bravery courage depression eating exercise food future life living love loved-ones medication memories reason strength Andrew Solomon
ae08e0c Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses authentic-living being-positive blessing blessings character focus inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-quotes motivation optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking reputation strength weakness Roy T. Bennett
036cdcd I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we're actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we're suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before! human humanity inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring life life-and-living living people self-awareness stars strength supernova truth C. JoyBell C.
62fe728 And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. strength John Steinbeck
4395239 Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength. courage inspirational strength Sabaa Tahir
20c0b2c " One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice -- though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend my life!" each voice cried. But you didn't stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- poetry strength Mary Oliver
b6034c0 If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned, and of poor judgment, I will. And I would be damned if I cared what other people think. For I would rather be thought of as all of these things, than not love. If in loving, I become the naked woman on the horse, I will ride that horse with my head held high. This is my spirit. I am unbreakable. bravery courage fearless fight-for-love human inspirational inspirational-love inspirational-quotes inspiring love passion passionate-life passionate-love strength unbreakable unbreakable-spirit C. JoyBell C.
b5e7c63 Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he'd held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it--he'd known she was as strong has he was. faith jace-wayland love strength Cassandra Clare
88dcc81 Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are. buffy-the-vampire-slayer changes inspirational life self-determination self-discovery strength whistler Joss Whedon
8637417 I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. human-nature individuality liberty strength uniqueness Henry David Thoreau
4f5d4ab To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman? empowerment equality feminist gandhi gender inspirational men strength women Mahatma Gandhi
b5ee157 Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on. honor strength James Frey
6b287f0 Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient. forgiveness inspirational life resilience strength Steve Maraboli
3e91d5e A quiet conscience makes one strong! integrity morality peace spirituality strength Anne Frank
c38fe6b How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us attitude change courage depression dragons fears helplessness inspirational poetry sadness strength transformation weakness Rainer Maria Rilke
fefb672 Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. love strength Hermann Hesse
f6308aa "My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus." [ carpe-diem expectations gratitude life misfortunes spirit strength unbreakable-spirit Stephen W. Hawking
f1db038 I don't really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits experience life living strength Anaïs Nin
fed39c3 God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change. serenity-prayer strength Dan Brown
b84485c You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy. poetry strength Kahlil Gibran
925a014 Don't give up the fight bob-marley inspirational strength Bob Marley
61b2796 The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. (Psalm 28:7 NIV) heart lord scripture strength trust Anonymous
583e0f0 Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel? feelings strength tess women Thomas Hardy
c7a3138 We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die. destiny fate inspirational strength Douglas Coupland
ac6243f Women are never so strong as after their defeat. empowerment perseverance strength women Alexandre Dumas
1f88d6b Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers. courage creative-process empowerment experience guenter-grass memory record-of-life strength writing Salman Rushdie
30a99de The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal. accomplishment achievement adversity anger climbing encouragement falling heart inspirational motivational perseverance persistence strength success try-again Criss Jami
81e49cb The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. resilience strength Robert Jordan
8bdff97 Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way. strength strength-through-adversity survival Betty Smith
b2f4ee5 No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping. death endurance inspirational joy life optimism strength suicide truth David Hume
4ce636a All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. lost strength J.R.R. Tolkien
8c95dbb Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down. honesty strength wall Jodi Picoult
a62df2c She was stronger alone... strength Jane Austen
39e0899 Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men inspirational prayer strength John F. Kennedy
ced14d1 I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow. intellect reading strength tyrion-lannister George R.R. Martin
42ece3b The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today. problems strength worrying Max Lucado
ea6a684 If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want. forget past strength Paulo Coelho
77b27c2 Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un ete invincible. hardship seasons self strength summer Albert Camus
1c13506 There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough. questions strength John Green
731294f I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength christianity inspirational jesus strength Adam Young
07cf5a6 Rule your mind or it will rule you. be-strong be-yourself independence inspiration inspirational life living rule self-help stay-strong strength the-mind Horace
7305ffa having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for. bukowski death life love poem poetry strength strength-through-adversity stronger struggle Charles Bukowski
555cbcd Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame. cherokee inspirational life strength P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
9ba820c God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest. courage death endurance joy life optimism steadfastness strength suicide Charlotte Brontë
ac3bd32 A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. dreams healing heart imaginary-friend imagination inspirational pretending richelle richelle-goodrich soothing soul strength Richelle E. Goodrich
88b9fd5 There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength. strength J.K. Rowling
83c9562 I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready. divergent strength Veronica Roth
e04f3fd It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers. change intelligence strength H.G. Wells
acfc5b7 The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you. embrace happiness inspirational love men relationships strength true-love Steve Maraboli
9de7c50 We're built of contradictions, all of us. It's those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I'll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off. philosophy strength Mark Lawrence
74db446 They wore their strange beauty like war paint. beauty cold different strange strength strong unique vampire Holly Black
31ebca9 My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death! smaug strength J.R.R. Tolkien
5f9383d REMEMBER YOUR GREATNES achieve affirmation attitude beauty big birth born competition confidence courage egg existence eye fears giant great greatness human inspirational life living-achievement loser losing loss obstacles odds pains poem poetry race small sperm strength struggles success successful suffering survivor suzy-kassem victory warrior win winner winners winning wisdom Suzy Kassem
f127b88 No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning. kindness learning sadness sincerity sorrow strength truth warning Haruki Murakami
020314a It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. bravery business challenge inspirational motivation strength work Isaac Asimov
a062275 You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself life perspective strength Ken Kesey
eda9ca8 Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. strength violence G.K. Chesterton
fed81ce at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you've ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered. life strength inspirational Cecelia Ahern
7d2f462 God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in trouble. strength Anonymous
8578885 But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together. purpose strength strong together together-in-spirit Bram Stoker
6ff622a So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled. life live strength Alexandre Dumas
99cc6c1 Fear could break a line faster than any enemy charge. empire-of-storms fear fight strength war Sarah J. Maas
fbe710d Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. strength Audre Lorde
f9951fc Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid! delicate fake gentle genuine inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes parable parables real silk soft strength strength-of-a-woman stupidity stupidity-of-man wisdom wisdom-quotes C. JoyBell C.
0795b1a Just because I'm human doesn't mean I'm weak. strength weak Jennifer L. Armentrout
a32ac1a "I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder--how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest. Not that I humbled myself by a slavish notion of inferiority: on the contrary, I just said-- "You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protegee and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands. Be sure that is the only tie he seriously acknowledges between you and him, so don't make him the object of your fine feelings, your raptures, agonies, and so forth. He is not of your order: keep to your caste; and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised." strength unrequited-love Charlotte Brontë
cec2b1c Everything is within your power change change-life change-quotes change-the-world change-your-life change-your-mind empowered empowerment encourae-yourself encourage-yourself encouragement encouragement-and-attitude encouragement-quotes encouraging encouraging-quotes innate-wisdom inner-strength inspirational inspiring inspiring-quote inspiring-quotes law-of-attraction motivating motivational motivational-quotes personal-development positive positive-quote positive-thinking positivity power power-of-the-subconscious-mind power-of-thoughts power-of-will power-of-women powerful powerful-quotes powerful-women powerful-words self-empowered self-empowerment self-healing self-help self-help-inspiration self-help-motivator self-help-quote self-help-quotes self-improvement spiritual spiritual-quote spiritual-wisdom strength strength-of-mind strength-of-spirit strong strong-will strong-willed strong-woman strong-women subconscious uplifting Janice Trachtman
38a804a George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength. life strength Christopher Isherwood
e159ab3 The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing. snow strength strong the-princess-bride weak william-goldman William Goldman
4ba4aaf Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. reality strength weakness Gene Wolfe
047fbb6 You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off. love strength Louisa May Alcott
7641935 For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow. self strength struggle Hermann Hesse
0d36fa9 Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. Intelligence is not the foundation of arrogance. Insolence is not logic. Epithets are the arguments of malice. arrogance epithets genius good-nature insolence intelligence kindness logic malice serene strength virtue Robert Green Ingersoll
96ed142 I say to you all, once again -- in the light of Lord Voldemort's return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. harry-potter strength unity J.K. Rowling
6f3d6e7 Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate.' Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, 'This is what I need.' It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment--not discouragement--you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You'll see that this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes. fate growth life love nietzsche positivity strength Joseph Campbell
90c5d74 What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is. self-esteem strength Iyanla Vanzant
3a8156a It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potential moral units- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coat-tails. individuality strength John Steinbeck
b0caf38 Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength. marriage strength Timothy Keller
cd81411 Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own. strength valor Michel de Montaigne
4516900 Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. nature strength weakness Henry David Thoreau
fcd91b5 She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows the future and sees through flesh. She is not afraid of anything. strength Rachel Klein
2880208 "Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man." honor jon-snow mance-rayder night-s-watch strength the-wall wildlings George R.R. Martin
48c2d82 "A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart." dead george-r-r-martin hardship heartbreak hope hope-for-the-hopeless hopefulness keep-the-faith knights searching strength strength-through-adversity struggle struggling true warriors George R.R. Martin
d94a02b It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own. self strength Herman Melville
5a205ca If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies. ashes attack badass confidence death end-of-the-world girl-power kangaroos kingdom-come self-defense strength threat wallabies Haruki Murakami
7d2e42d He reached out a long arm and drew me in, holding me close against him. I put my arms around him and felt the quiver of his muscles, exhausted, and the sheer hard strength still in him, that would hold him up, no matter how tired he might be. We stood quite still for some time, my cheek against his chest and his face against my hair, drawing strength from each other for whatever might come next. Being married. marriage strength Diana Gabaldon
263903e "I want them to hear your story. And know that there is a special strength..." As I spoke I realized I needed to hear it, know it, too. "A special strength in enduring such dark trials and hardships... And still remaining warm, and kind. Still willing to trust--and reach out." kindess mor morrigan strength Sarah J. Maas
1596266 "It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things." "Like what?" I asked. My mouth was dry. "I don't know. Like take their hands when the slow song comes up for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want." being-confident being-in-love being-strong being-yourself how-to-get-a-girl how-to-get-a-guy nice-guy-syndrome personality relationships strength Stephen Chbosky
1a3eb20 On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen. heroic individual-will noble prayer strength wisdom Elizabeth Gaskell
68fc753 "You're free to dream however you wish," Nollin teased. "But don't ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic--" "Then don't ask us to share your weakness!" Jason interrupted." brandon mull prophecy strength weakness Brandon Mull
b5d939e The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out. george-bernard-shaw pygmalion shaw strength George Bernard Shaw
d78da70 This is how we are: we fall in love with each other's strengths, but love deepens towards permanence when we fall in love with each other's weaknesses. finding-strength-in-love human-nature love love-that-lasts lovers philosophy-of-love romance strength weakness Salman Rushdie
db87fd7 "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves." Easy enough to say when you're a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars." augustus-waters destiny strength John Green
771e646 You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength. power strength weakness Wallace Stegner
fee470d Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength. agape-love american-history black-history-month civil-rights-movement compassion-heals-lives conflict-resolution courage dreams faith famous-authors famous-speeches great-leaders hope human-rights-day humanity i-have-a-dream-speech leadership love martin-luther-king-day martin-luther-king-jr mlk-day mlkdream50 national-history-day nonviolence nonviolent-conflict-resolution police-reform police-shootings spiritual-visions spirituality strength voting-rights-act-of-1965 Aberjhani
75b5927 Until then we're going to keep making memories like this, moments when we're the only two people in the whole world. And when we get scared or lonely or confused, we'll pull out these memories and wrap them around us and they'll make us feel safe. And strong. encouragement loneliness memories safe scared strength Laurie Halse Anderson
2006dee Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. doubting doubts effort efforts mankind men secret silence strength strive toil wise-men Bram Stoker
08884ec You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop. happiness illness love marriage safety sickness strength Charlotte Brontë
bddff00 He can't value you more than you value yourself. love strength value Toni Morrison
15939d4 I'd think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is. inspirational strength Ken Kesey
008d8fd So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. life strength J.K. Rowling
f51c43a Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. She would kill herself rather than go on, she decided one night... Yet when she slept that night, she dreamt the dragon dream again. Viserys was not in it this time. There was only her and the dragon. Its scales were black as night, wet and slick with blood. Her blood, Dany sensed. Its eyes were pools of molten magma and when it opened its mouth, the flame came roaring out in a hot jet. She could hear it singing to her. She opened her arms to the fire, embraced it, let it swallow her whole, let it cleanse her and temper her and scour her clean. She could feel her flesh sear and blacken and slough away, could feel her blood boil and turn to steam, and yet there was no pain. She felt strong and new and fierce. And the next day, strangely, she did not seem to hurt quite as much. overcoming-pain strength George R.R. Martin
a56d18c Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught. failure john-steinbeck morality punishment strength success the-winter-of-our-discontent John Steinbeck
8e3a575 He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed. strength E.M. Forster
8c0a5d8 I don't think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me. strength weakness Terry Pratchett
5d648b0 It don't matter what happens, if you're only srong and have great courage. strength Lois Lenski
fe165d5 of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong. strength G.K. Chesterton
a81fa2a Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools. strength truth J.K. Rowling
d35a651 The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger. danger death fear strength Toni Morrison
40c8506 It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare. heroes innocence madness memory strength James Baldwin
91ca331 We must go on, because we can't turn back. growth strength Robert Louis Stevenson
17a470d Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength. perseverance strength Leo Tolstoy
57eb1d5 I had been able to break the curse myself. I'd had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength. love reason strength willpower Gail Carson Levine
8bad525 "There is a tree. At the downhill edge of a long, narrow field in the western foothills of the La Sal Mountains -- southeastern Utah. A particular tree. A juniper. Large for its species -- maybe twenty feet tall and two feet in diameter. For perhaps three hundred years this tree has stood its ground. Flourishing in good seasons, and holding on in bad times. "Beautiful" is not a word that comes to mind when one first sees it. No naturalist would photograph it as exemplary of its kind. Twisted by wind, split and charred by lightning, scarred by brushfires, chewed on by insects, and pecked by birds. Human beings have stripped long strings of bark from its trunk, stapled barbed wire to it in using it as a corner post for a fence line, and nailed signs on it on three sides: NO HUNTING; NO TRESPASSING; PLEASE CLOSE THE GATE. In commandeering this tree as a corner stake for claims of rights and property, miners and ranchers have hacked signs and symbols in its bark, and left Day-Glo orange survey tape tied to its branches. Now it serves as one side of a gate between an alfalfa field and open range. No matter what, in drought, flood heat and cold, it has continued. There is rot and death in it near the ground. But at the greening tips of its upper branches and in its berrylike seed cones, there is yet the outreach of life. I respect this old juniper tree. For its age, yes. And for its steadfastness in taking whatever is thrown at it. That it has been useful in a practical way beyond itself counts for much, as well. Most of all, I admire its capacity for self-healing beyond all accidents and assaults. There is a will in it -- toward continuing to be, come what may." strength Robert Fulghum
348667e If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside. chaos inspirational life-lessons strength Julie Andrews Edwards
38e08e0 Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. challenges endurance life pain persistence strength suffering Alexandre Dumas
8f064a3 We grow in part by confessing our faults and weaknesses to each other (James 5:16; Eccl. 4:10). If we are always being strong and without needs, we are not growing, and we are setting ourselves up for a very dangerous fall. emotional-needs fall growth needs strength Henry Cloud
7e07208 lm ywjd lHb lyj`ln s`d, bl 'n '`tqd 'n lHb wjd lybyn ln md~ qwtn `l~ lm`n@ wlHtml pain strength Hermann Hesse
cd29102 Thought is creative - Fear attracts like energy - Love is all there is. growth light love peace strength trust truth Neale Donald Walsch
cfb2056 In that moment I found a power beyond any I'd had before, a will and a determination I would never have need if not for Lucinda, a fortitude I hadn't been able to find for a lesser cause. power strength will Gail Carson Levine
a02737f Ask us for any help you need...Let us be strong for you. help loyalty strength Juliet Marillier
a97baf4 "YOU HAVE TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE WEAK Allow yourself to feel whatever you are feeling. Notice any labels you attach to crying or feeling vulnerable. Let go of the labels. Just feel what you are feeling, all the while cultivating moment-to-moment awareness, riding the waves of "up" and "down," "good" and "bad," "weak" and "strong," until you see that they are all inadequate to fully describe your experience. Be with the experience itself. Trust in your deepest strength of all: to be present, to be wakeful." experience feeling good-and-bad labels meditation mindfulness moment-to-moment-awareness present riding-the-waves strength strong trust up-and-down vulnerable wakeful weak weak-and-strong Jon Kabat-Zinn
6dcbd8a The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book. freethought piety rebellion religion strength wisdom Christopher Hitchens
ed0a0c1 It was me who had to carry myself over the finish line, and all I needed to remember when I felt like not trying was that that feeling wouldn't last forever. giving-up not-trying strength temporary Jennifer L. Armentrout
10196dc It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing. nursing recovery strength Joseph Conrad
7b8aa3f The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange! defiance fire fire-and-blood game-of-thrones jaehaerys-targaryen strength targaryen targaryens Ellen Raskin
b8e669a Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness. strength Richard Brautigan
83afee8 It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done. strength women E. Nesbit
9d30757 She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped trying. book books friends friendship fun funny gossip-girl happy knowledge life love quote quotes strength woman Cecily von Ziegesar
6c98529 Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have strength, and that strength shall become part of you, mind, body, and spirit. prayer strength thought Richard Llewellyn
cc32f74 I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes. dreams love older strength teenagers young Joyce Carol Oates
72c2b68 How long can I be a wall, keeping the wind off? How long can I be Gentling the sun with the shade of my hand, Intercepting the blue bolts of a cold moon? The voices of loneliness, the voices of sorrow Lap at my back ineluctably. How shall it soften them, this little lullaby? fortitude loneliness poetry sorrow strength Sylvia Plath
c192582 I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in his homeland. He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon him. He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child. I was given the job of escorting him back to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future happiness. positivity strength J.K. Rowling
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