232 quotes found
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
“Abby: "You were great. I don't know what I'd have done without you."Dylan: "You'd have done fine. That's one of the most intimidating things about you." Abby: "Intimidating? Me?"Dylan: "It isn't ea...”
“I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.”
“I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.”
“There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood ha...”
“In the end you’ll see you won’t stop me.”
“For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.”
“But there was nothing else she could be right now except strong.”
“Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.”
“They’d scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms—not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.”
“Welcome Beauty, banish fear.”
“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our fut...”
“the truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength.”
“Most of us think we can hide our weaknesses from the world, and sometimes, we're right. But only if we're very very strong.”
“We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn’t always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny.”
“Though I’m tempted by the call of the sea, I resist. It can’t claim me.In a way I’m stronger than the waves and I feel good about that.”
“The world was so much more forgiving of strength when it took on the appearance of weakness.”
“Sooner or later it would happen: strength would change into consciousness.”
“As one widow put it to me, “Strength doesn’t mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.”
“Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself, this time.”
