4,431 Quotes About Strength

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I cry out and fall to my knees, unable to go on, weeping for the dead, weeping for the cruelties, and a whisper calls to me from far away, You are strong, Stronger than your pain, Stronger than your grief, Stronger than them. And I force myself to my feet again.

Oh man! You have no idea what you just did. You have made her stronger, incassable and unstoppable.

Only when we recognize our shortcomings can we begin to remedy them. Only when we perceive our true strengths can we leverage their power. And only when we seek what we don’t know can we really start to learn.

I won’t lose hope. I won’t be broken.

This is the secret: when I encounter myself on the page, I am shocked at how forceful I seem. On the page I am strong, because that is where I put my strength. On the page I am everything that I am not, because that is where I put myself. I am no longer whispering through the small skirted shape of a keyhole: the door is knocked down and the roof is blown off and I am aimed once more at the entire wide night.

Si sente uno stereotipo, un caso da manuale al cubo, ma benché non la sopporti deve ammettere che la struttura sta funzionando, come un brutto ponteggio che però regge un palazzo. Non possiamo scegliere cosa ci tiene in piedi. A volte devi pensare a una cosa soltanto, cioè a non crollare.

Motherhood makes you stronger even as it makes you weaker. Your new sensitivity is a strength, and you should see it that way.

Fear is what makes us human and it is in overcoming fear that we show our strength.