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The Warrior Woman Code:A confident woman doesn't beg a man to stay, cry if they don't or need to tear down other women to be loved. She knows her value. When the person she is meant to be with finds her, that person will know it also. He won't be confused by it. He will fight for her because without her he feels incomplete. She will always be foremost in his mind above anyone else. She doesn't have to scheme to keep or entice him. She is okay walking away from him because she doesn't want to be seen as a choice or a woman that has some potential. She demands to be seen as "the one." To settle for anything less than that is an admission of insecurity and lack of self love.
— Shannon L. Alder
Whenever you should question your self-worth, always remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.
— Amit Kalantri
Sometimes you need to stop fighting to stop drowning
— Evy Michaels
Adversity tests the limit of our strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Freedom does not come withterms and conditionsDon't let anyone eversell you that.
— Anjum Choudhary
When desire meets desire, the stronger one survives. Fulfill your desires! The predator will eat the prey. Our world is a cruel and dirty place...but that's what makes it so beautiful! Hell is the true paradise!
— Naoyuki Ochiai, Syndrome 1866 9
How we handle adversity determines the chances if we either fall or rise.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
In all likelihood he would eventually destroy her, unless he found the strength to let her go.
— Lorraine Heath, Lord of Wicked Intentions
Leadership was not an act of bravery but rather forbearance and the strength to move forward with humility in the belief of what is righteous
— Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
Releasing a slow breath, she raised her chin and finally turned her gaze on Qureshi. The moment their gazes connected she felt a surge of power go through her. Throughout her nine hellish months of captivity, she’d been forbidden to look him in the eye. She’d known better than to even try, because she’d known what would happen to her if she did. But they weren’t in Afghanistan anymore and he was no longer the one calling the shots. She held the authority now. Her life, her opinions, had value here. And her voice, silenced for so long, would now speak for all the victims unable to. Her voice would not only be heard here in this courtroom—it would be his undoing.Qureshi stared back at her with an insolent, almost bored disdain on his scratched face, making it clear what he thought of her. To him she was nothing but an infidel whore, a commodity less valuable than a goat or mule, to be bought and sold whenever it suited him, handed out to one of his soldiers as a prize of war. Well this infidel whore is about to bury you, you son of a bitch. Holding that cold, hateful gaze in the taut, hushed silence that filled the courtroom, she sent him another silent message. Let him see it in her eyes. You didn’t break me. I’m no longer afraid of you. You no longer have the power to hurt me or anyone I care about. And by God, I’ll make sure you never have the chance to hurt anyone else again.
— Kaylea Cross, Avenged
How one responds in these dire circumstances says a lot about one's faith and the strength of one's beliefs.
— Tim Hiller, Strive: Life is Short, Pursue What Matters
You possess great strength and vitality.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A quiet peacefulness stole through him, dimming the sharp sense of loss. His arms contracted around her, the pressure fierce. “I’m coming to find you once the trial’s over,” he murmured against the top of her head. She kissed his chest. “You’d better.” “We’re not done,” he told her. “Not by a long shot.” She hummed in agreement and caressed his chest with her fingertips. Nate stroked the length of her spine, savoring the silky texture of her skin. He missed her already and she was still lying naked in his arms. “Just a few more days and this’ll all be over.” “Don’t make me wait too long, okay?” “I won’t.” He leaned his head back, tipped her chin up with one hand until she met his eyes. If there was even a tiny part of her that doubted his intentions, he wanted that cleared up now. “I’ve never felt like this about anyone before.” Her eyes softened and she smiled that serene smile that soothed him deep inside. “Me neither.” He could drown in this woman and die a happy man. He admired her so damn much. “You’re strong, baby. So much stronger than you even realize. You’ve got this.” “Have I got you, though?” Normally the question would have freaked him out. Hearing it from her made him feel insanely possessive. “Yeah, you’ve got me, baby.” He was falling so hard and so fast, and it didn’t even faze him. “Then I can handle everything else on my own,” she whispered, and pulled his mouth down to hers.
— Kaylea Cross, Avenged
BE an accomplisher against all odds.
— Stephanie Gilzene
Dare to succeed. You were born to win.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Weak men don't like string men, they remind them of what they failed to be.
— Katy Evans, Manwhore +1
If you can endure anything, you can become anything.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
— Holy Bible - 2 Timothy 1:7
Don’t you understand? You are Elder. When you take my role as Eldest, you must dedicate your whole life to this one idea: you are the caretaker of every single person on the ship. They are your responsibility. You can never show weakness in front of them: you are their strength. You can never let them see you in despair: you are their hope. You must always be everything to everyone on board.
— Beth Revis, Across the Universe
Characteristics of strength and individuality requires confidence and self-assurance to choose what is right against all odds.
— Lorna Jackie Wilson, Black Butterfly: The Journey - The Victory
The worst thing about being unhappy is not being strong enough to leave the situation.
— Ron Baratono
I do not subscribe to the abuse "victim" or "survivor" mentality. I have experienced every kind of abuse imaginable and I am and always have been the most happy go-lucky, positive and life affirming person around. Your labels do not serve you, so don't use them as an excuse to be miserable. You have a beautiful life to live, so accept the beauty and start living.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
If you live by the grace of God and you constantly recognise His grace in your life, then your weakness turns into strength
— Sunday Adelaja
There's no such thing as a mistake. There are only experiences. Some are good, and some are bad. Either way, it is an experience we learn from.
— Jenna Alatari
Collectives can’t make money from virtues they make money from weakness. Where there are no weak, they create weak. Cowards hate strong people.
— Moxie Will, Something That Will Change Your Life
God can turn your weaknesses into your strength.
— Sunday Adelaja
He who knows his strength has overcome many difficulties.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
When you overcome the difficulties of life, you develop an inner strength
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I always thought it was disgusting and ugly, how the weak live their lives depending on each other shamefully licking each other's wounds. A way of life that no one could truly want. I was certain that no greatness could ever come from that. That's what I thought until I met you.
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.
— Louise L. Hay
Those who intend to destroy me, underestimate my ability to regenerate.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
Vanity remains a feeble weaponThe delusional wearer of it considers herself strong
— Sreesha Divakaran, Those Imperfect Strokes
I'm stone, nothing touches me-nothing.
— Amy A. Bartol, Under Different Stars
It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. There is no natural connection between strong impulses and a weak conscience. The natural connection is the other way. To say that one person’s desires and feelings are stronger and more various than those of another, is merely to say that he has more of the raw material of human nature, and is therefore capable, perhaps of more evil, but certainly of more good. Strong impulses are but another name for energy.
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
And then eventually you wake up, fully rested, ready to fly again :)
— Cass van Krah
My life might not turn out to be easy I thought. I just hoped I'd turn out to be strong.
— April Sinclair
Balance hangs in the fingers of Peace
— James Butler
We have one world. We have one chance; to be a united force of positive strength, to feed humanity the light of being humane.
— Jessica Edouard
It was supposed to say "Great Artist" on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say "such a good teacher/daughter/friend" instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL.
— Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs
Her fatigue was gone; she felt vital and strong, like a tree coming back to life in the springtime, vibrant with sap, ready to put out buds and then blossoms.
— Linda Lael Miller, Springwater
We have one world. We have one chance; to be a united force of positive strength, to feed humanity the light of being humane." Jessica Edouard
— Jessica Edouard
May we continue to encourage one another, so that we will increase in strength and in wisdom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Be strong enough to move mountains.
— Karen Quan, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
It’s not the good we see in the people we love, but what we refuse to see that gives us strength.” “What the hell is that supposed to mean?” “Sometimes when we care about someone, we deny what’s right in front of us so we can move forward, so we have a reason to continue to love.
— V.R. Barkowski, My Bloody Valentine
I counted the living and gathered them within me and the light that broke through embraced all the life that I had within me...
— Linda Boström Knausgård, Helioskatastrofen
Your external circumstances may change, toil may take the place of rest, sickness of health, trials may thicken within and without. Externally, you are the prey of such circumstances; but if your heart is stayed on God, no changes or chances can touch it, and all that may befall you will but draw you closer to Him. Whatever the present moment may bring, your knowledge that it is His will, and that your future heavenly life will be influenced by it, will make all not only tolerable, but welcome to you, while no vicissitudes can affect you greatly, knowing that He who holds you in His powerful hand cannot change, but abideth forever.
— Jean Nicolas Grou
You either learn to play hard ball or you become the ball.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don´t give up.
— Robert Tew
Sometimes walking away has nothing do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own.
— Robert Tew
Give me another Chance Then, You will Get Less than I Gain...
— Hasil Paudyal, Blended Words
Some are born strong and others are made strong.
— J.R. Rim, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
Don't let your tragedies fool you, they were never meant to alter your path; just re-pave your direction. Spend time nurturing the things that once tore you apart and you will find within you, your most empowering strength.
— Nikki Rowe
My faith is stong enough to endure, kind enough to feel, big enough to accommodate.
— Debasish Mridha
I once stood on a road and found I had no friends. And I was glad. Better to have no friends than to have people claim they were your friends when they were not. It is a source of strength to come to terms with your right to be alone.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself, this time.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Every man's endeavor was imbued with responsibility
— Philip Roth
Murder me with bombs you poor lonely sod I will only build myself again and stronger. I am too stupid to know better I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself.
— Chris Cleave, Incendiary
Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.
— Kate Meader, Playing with Fire
Your strength and character grow stronger and deeper while you wait for hope to return.
— Alison G. Bailey, Present Perfect
Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how.
— Ally Condie, Matched
…I wanted to remove,my diamond earrings,for I felt they were,weighing a little heavy.I wanted to remove my heels,for I felt they were,taking me a little,above the ground,than I needed to be.I wanted to,throw away my blazer,for it was too much,of a thick layer,to what I am deep inside.” (Poem- Unambitious, Book- Ginger and Honey)
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Strength of character isn't always about how much you can handle before you break, it's also about how much you can handle after you've broken.
— Robert Tew
yEvery man's endeavor was imbued with responsibility
— Philip Roth
The promise of hope provides more comfort than the limitations of doubt.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Trails are used by God to teach you humility and dependence on His grace rather than your own strength.
— Jim George, The Bare Bones Bible Handbook: 10 Minutes to Understanding Each Book of the Bible
There was only one option left, and it was letting go.
— Veronica Roth
She was too quiet, or she was too loud. She took things too seriously, or not seriously at all. She was too sensitive, or too cold-hearted. She hated with every fiber of her being, or loved with all her heart. There was no in-between for her. It was either all or nothing. She wanted everything, but in the end, she settled for nothing.
— Stacey T. Hunt, Game of Nightmares
Look for the person everyone hates, and love them.
— Criss Jami, Healology
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.
— Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
Yes, it hurts to fall— ache, tenderness—but each scar is a sign your system is working.
— Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum
My strength: My enemies, they keep me strong enough to face the worst - MB
— Bharath Mamidoju
You are the most influential person in your life. You can embrace your strengths or give away your power. The choice is yours.
— Gary   Hopkins
The most successful people in the most impossible situations are the ones that are sure they're gonna get out of it, and they go on thinking that, even if they die trying.
— Lori Lansens, The Mountain Story
Strength ebbed and flowed, but brittle would break.
— Shelley Noble, Beach Colors
Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalescence was unexpected…. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, of a sudden sense and anticipation of a future, of impending adventures, of seas that are open again.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
You mess with my demons….you get the devil!
— Peter Cimino
You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell howl!
— Carry A. Nation
... you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
To be thankful for just being alive...To survive means to win... That only applies to animals, but I'm a human being!
— Nobuyuki Fukumoto
Humanism is my Religion, Good is my adoption , Bad is my Elimination, Acceptance is my Decision, Love is My Gift , Relation is my Affection ,Truth is My Strength, Help Is My Credit , Knowledge is My Treasure
— jagan kumar
Now do you understand? I am never changing who I am.
— Peter Cimino
Who are you, Hockenberry, to thwart Fate and defy the Will of the Gods?I am me, Thomas Hockenberry. I am fed up with these power-addled thugs who call themselves gods.
— Dan Simmons
That Detroit ultimately concentrated on automobiles could be traced to one genius, Henry Ford.... But that the necessary human energy for this development existed in Detroit could be proven through its early history.... I told him what I knew of the settlement in Detroit and of the climate, certainly almost the worst in the United States. Only the very strong could survive.... To defeat the conditions imposed by earth and sky at Detroit required intensive labor by energetic men who were not tempted by pleasure and play.
— William Valentiner
Plants die off when their roots have no water to sustain them. May your tears feed the roots of love in your heart and bring healing to your soul. May God grant you the strength to move on, knowing there's so much ahead of you.
— Kemi Sogunle
Everything thing I have ever achieved in life I have accomplished on my own – I've earned it - even the bad stuff.
— Peter Cimino
Weak or strong, everyone falls at least a thousand times throughout their life. It is in what they learn from their fall and how steady they become that you recognize the strongest of all." -Grandma (Magdalen)
— Lydhia Marie, Remember
one day you will wake up, you will see with clear sight all that has held you back; you will feel lighter because you finally accept who you are. You will shine with flawless beauty because your happiness comes from the purity of your heart and one day I hope you realise all of this, before it's too late; because darling, if we spent our years nurturing the best of ourselves, heaven would be felt on earth.
— Nikki Rowe
Out of every tragedy, " he said, "comes new strength.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
She let the fear burn inside her like fuel, making her voice even stronger.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
Because I found the strength to do the things I believe in, and the will to stop doing the things I don't believe in.So I have discovered what it means, to be at peace.
— pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You: Just the Words
Trust what your instincts are telling you, it's your souls voice pointing you in the right direction.
— Nikki Rowe
I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear." - Rosa Parks
— Rosa Parks
Gather the scattered fragments of your broken heart. Pick them up off the floor and weave them into the tapestry of your life so that when you find the light again-and you will- you'll remember that love can only be lost because it was once found. You are healing and you are growing and everything you are is good enough.
— Rachel Brathen
I am a link in a chain
— Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
Her eyes were clear; she hadn't been crying. She was a cop's wife first, a woman second; she wouldn't give in to tears as long as Wyatt was fighting for his life because she was fighting with him in spirit.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
I've never met a strong person with an easy past.
— Anonymous
Ask not for a lighter load but for broader shoulders
— Jewish Proverb
A victim has the potential to transform into a survivor, but if that is forgotten, a true victim is what they become. A survivor must endure strife and persevere against those thoughts that would convince them otherwise. Holding fast to ones will will allow them to know their strength has not evaporated; They will never be without hope.
— J.D. Stroube, Caged in Spirit
Pour Into My Spirit...spread your arms around meconsole me and keep me close -wield your mighty swordto vanquish all my foes...
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Strength should always be complimented by softness. If you resist too much, you will break. Thus, the strong person knows when to use strength and when to yield, and good fortune and disaster depend on whether you know how and when to yield.
— Liezi, Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
Strength is not defined by the load you bear, it’s defined by the amount you can bend before breaking.
— Blake Mays
& may you shine on in the sky with diamonds & dreams...do it for the suit behind the platform, who only wished he were free.have strength in freedom.
— L V HALL
I never believed I will be the Breadwinner in my family, But I give Lord God Almighty Thanks!
— Genereux Philip
If it's not on the table, don't eat it off the floor.
— Melody Carstairs
You do not need any more strength. You need only to realize how strong you already are.
— Vironika Tugaleva
She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it.
— David Anthony Durham, Acacia: The War with the Mein
If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak.It's the strong who remain, the bent but unbroken, like the iron rods that used to give this concrete its strength.
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down. I’m choosing to stand up taller. I’ll probably get knocked down a few more times before this life is through with me, but I can guarantee you I’ll never stay on the ground.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
None of us start out strong ... And none of us have the exact same strengths.
— Brandon Mull, The Rogue Knight
The purest form of faith happens when you reach the bottom of your reasoning and find there is nothing that you can do that will make sense out of what you have been through.
— Shannon L. Alder
What Do the Trees Know?What do the trees know? To bend when all the wild winds blow. Roots are deep and time is slow. All we grasp we must let go.What do the trees know? Buds can weather ice and snow. Dark gives way to sunlight's glow. Strength and stillness help us grow.
— Joyce Sidman, Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
I had been fortified by trauma, the way a bone, once broken, grows back stronger than it had been.
— Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones
The truth is that each of us fall short of loving unconditionally. We don't love others the way God loves us. Yet Jesus extended perfect love by living and dying for all of our sins. In spite of our failures, weaknesses, and selfishness, He sacrificed His own life so we could have eternal life.
— Dana Arcuri, Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity, A 50-Day Devotional
She was a nightmare of beauty and menace living right there above them, a being part raptor, part human, part divine. She knew without question that she could sweep down on them and inflict upon all of them a terrible vengeance if she wished. She had the capacity for violence within her, residing beside her heart.
— David Anthony Durham, Acacia: The War with the Mein
Without struggles, success would be meaningless.
— Peprah Boasiako
Don’t ever let Them tell youyou aretoo broken to bloom
— Nadia Hasan
People usualy use "move on" when their heart broke because of love. Most don't understand when father, mother, sister or brother has died, you might have needed more strength to move on. It was like living with no air.
— Glad Munaiseche
...but fear of death gives us strength.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Look Fabian, the world is full of sheep, don’t settle for being a sheep, even if you do reside over those creatures, act more like a Ram.
— T.A. Uner, Stone Ram
Strength for today, overflowing grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
As he stood there lost in reflection, Auclair thought he seemed more like a man revolving plans for a new struggle with fortune than one looking back upon a life of brilliant features. The Count had the bearing of a fencer when he takes up the foil; from his shoulders to his heels there was intention and direction. His carriage was his unconscious idea of himself, -- it was an armour he put on when he took off his night-cap in the morning, and he wore it all day, at early mass, at his desk, on the march, at the Council, at his dinner-table. Even his enemies relied upon his strength.
— Willa Cather
When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness.
— Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
When we no longer have the strength to keep on walking, God will carry us. His strength is enough for you and I.
— Dana Arcuri, Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity: A 50-Day Devotional
If you're facing a season of trials, don't allow the enemy to have a field day by putting negative thoughts in your mind. Let go of stinking thinking. Instead of turning away from God in anger or confusion, run into His loving arms where He will comfort you.
— Dana Arcuri, Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity: A 50-Day Devotional
All the weapons of hate and cruelty cannot stand against God’s love. The spiritually blind and intentionally evil try to oppose it, but they cannot ultimately win. That’s because all creation was formed and is sustained by God
— Stormie Omartian, Choose Love: The Three Simple Choices That Will Alter the Course of Your Life
Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
No one can make you 'better' emotionally, mentally, spiritually or physically. You have to find this for yourself. You have to taste that brutal moment when you're crying in a corner of the room, curled up on the floor and you think this is your end. You have to fight to stand up, literally. And you have to walk over to your reflection and scream, scream it all out. Then you have pick up your sword and fight and never quit. This is your life. Don't let those bastards win.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading
The less you feed the ego, the stronger you will be.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic, Write like no one is reading
Being alone is better than being your whore.
— Lori Jenessa Nelson
Don’t deceive yourself; laughing at someone’s weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Mama is beautiful,” I said.“Mama is strong,” he said. “Beauty comes and goes. Strength, you keep forever.
— Lawrence Hill
Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.
— Shannon L. Alder
In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Your heart is yours to give, it is no ones to take. Not a queen. Not a prince. No one.
— Stormy Smith, Bound by Duty
Being able to ask for helpis not a sign of weakness,it is a sign of strength.
— Human Angels, 365 Wisdom Pills
There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is so good-humoured. It is the look a woman would wear - would have worn - if she asked a man, a stranger, say, to dance.
— Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
I don't need you, I don't need your shitty false love, I got someone more beautiful, someone more trustworthy, someone who encourages me at every damn point in my life, someone who builds me hell strong, you know who that is, that's pain, and pain loves to be loved, and it loves me back a million times greater. It don't do shit lke you, It don't break my heart, It don't give a goddamn fuck for anyone but just cares hell for me, and I love it because it'll never leave me.
— Ashutosh Naliapara
Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for non-reaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through. You look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Faith is not a hothouse plant that must be shielded from wind and rain, so delicate that it has to be protected, but it’s like the sturdy oak which becomes stronger with every wind that blows upon it. An easy time weakens faith, while strong trials strengthen it.
— Elizabeth George, Finding God's Path Through Your Trials: His Help for Every Difficulty You Face
What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Allison was at full strength when it came to one thing:attitude.
— Cinda Williams Chima
Strong faith doesn’t give up
—  it maintainsthe confession. You can change any hopeless situation with your faith-filled confessions.
She was alone and destitute in a world of pointless carnage. By an eight-hundred-year-old Sepahrdic tradition she ad been since the age of twelve and a half "bogeret l'reshut nafsha"--an adult wit authority over her own soul. The Torah taught, Choose life. And so, rather than die of pride, Sofia Mendes sold what she had to sell, and she survived.
— Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady
— Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
It was like Nils had said, about the little lake on the mountain that had been turned into marsh and the large one that had remained a lake. A being was either strong enough to hold their ground or they became small and bottomless and started feeding on themselves. They turned into something they never saw coming. Something they never intended.
— Cecilia Ekbäck, Wolf Winter
Most people who idealize strength are ignorant of how it is acquired. Someone who is in constant agony does not notice a prick of the finger. Profound suffering sets a higher threshold, allowing one to bear with ease that which would have been burdensome before. If you wish to be strong, know first that this is the path of it. -The Holy Scrolls of Soeck, Seventh Binding, Thirteenth Stanza
— Aaron Lee Yeager, Kharmic Rebound
Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
There is no easy way to do a deadlift—not involving actually picking up the bar—which explains their lack of popularity in gyms around the world.
— Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training
Strength is gathered on the journey, not granted at the outset.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding.
— Isobelle Carmody, The Gathering
Shit happens. You can either stand their and complain about the smell or you can wipe your shoe and keep walking.
— Tommy Cotton, Just Went Out for Milk
Focus.Such a little word for such a hard thing and yet it can make things so simple, unless you break it. Like glass.Fragile on certain points with enough pressure ore carelessness, but if handled correctly, it’s useful, clear, sharp, and perfect.That’s what I will try to think about, whenever the Beast in me is not in agreement with what I am doing, or how I am behaving, when it threatens to break free, through that very same glass that separates us.I need to be exactly like this window: smooth, cool, strong, and impenetrable.Focus.
— D.S. Wrights, The Beast In Me
you don’t put demands on people and you never say anything negative--ever. So many people suck the life out of everyone they’re around, but you don’t do that. You give people strength just by being you.
— Matthew Quick, Boy21
Because of course, for every revelation of weakness, there had to be an equal and opposite show of strength.
— Jane Casey
Begin when you have the strength. You have it now
—  therefore the best time to begin is now.
I was just a girl again, but this girl didn’t owe her strength to fate or chance or a grand destiny. I’d been born with my power; the rest I’d earned.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
I have a thing for things that last.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be, in its flight, something more than itself?
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
I'm not offended until you think I'm offended.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Persistence is the source of great strength.
— Debasish Mridha
someday we will forget the hardship, and the pain its cause us; we will realise, hurt is not the end. lessons appear to teach us strength, we learn happiness is an inside job and to cure our insanity we must not fear what is to come, but believe in what we've been taught.
— Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman
Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go the extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. we have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us via the male members of our family.
— Benazir Bhutto
Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.
— Raheel Farooq
Politics doesn’t mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people.
— Amit Kalantri
The way my tia looks at Raul is the way I look at Martin. He makes her happy and helps her see that she is stronger than she thought she was. It's not that he makes her stronger, but he definitely helps her see that she has been strong all along.
— Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
I fell in love with you like the stars fell in love with the sky, without you I am empty and bare.
— Seja Majeed
Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the string, collecting itselfto be more than itself as it shoots?
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
When you live by God’s Word, your life works. When you live without God’s Word, life doesn’t work. God’s Word builds you up, feeds your soul, and gives you strength, direction, guidance, hope, encouragement, and faith. Remember that He gave you His Word so that you would know Him and the way He wants You to live.
— Stormie Omartian, The Prayer That Changes Everything: The Hidden Power of Praising God
Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public.
— Amit Kalantri
One does not need to be a good fighter to put up a good fight.
— P.K. Shaw
You must nurture a close walk with God through prayer, because humility’s strength is grounded in God.
— Jim George, The Remarkable Prayers of the Bible
Shards flew everywhere, slicing her hands, her forearm, and cascading to the floor like snow glistening on a winter morning.
— Katherine McIntyre, Poisoned Apple
There’s all this pressure in our society to be beautiful, to be strong, to be sexy. So we spend our time and money on trying to become these things. We put on the high heels, the suits, the makeup, the mask. Then, we feel more awkward than confident, so we drink away our anxieties. That doesn’t make us look any sexier – it just makes us stop caring about how we look.Everyone is beautiful. Everyone is sexy. Everyone is strong. It’s lunacy. We’re all running around trying to become something that we already are.You know what’s really sexy? A person who’s 100% comfortable with themselves. And you know what’s really funny? It is just as time consuming and difficult to learn to accept yourself as it is to pretend to be someone else. The only difference is – with self acceptance, one day, it’s not hard anymore. One day, you feel like your sexiest, strongest self just rolling out of bed in the morning.You’re either going to spend the little time you have in your life on trying to know yourself or trying to hide yourself. The choice is yours. You can’t do both.And you know what’s really amazing about choosing self-love? You’ll be setting an example for all the people around you and all the kids of the coming generation. You’ll be part of a revolution to take back the precious moments of our lives out of the hands of shame-inducing advertisers and back into the hands and hearts of real people like you, like me, like all of us.I know you’ve dreamt about changing the world. So this is your chance. Learn to love yourself, accept yourself, and unleash your strongest, sexiest self. It’s in there. You just have to believe it.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Compassion is a sign of inner peace. Kindness is a sign of inner strength. Be kind and be compassionate.
— Debasish Mridha
I believe that life is all about perception and timing. That good things come to those who act and that life’s about more than collecting a paycheck. I believe that the only person you’re destined to become is the one that you decide to be. That if you try hard enough you can convince yourself of anything. That having patience doesn’t make you a hero nor does it make you a doormat. I believe that not showing love proves you’re weak and belittling others doesn’t make you strong. That you are never as far away from people as the miles may suggest. That life’s too short to read awful books, listen to terrible music, or be around uninspiring people. I believe that where you start has little impact on where you finish. That sometimes the best thing you can do is walk away. That you can never be overdressed or overeducated. I believe that the cure for anything is salt water; sweat, tears, or the sea. That you should never let your memories be greater than your dreams. And that you should always choose adventure.
— Todd Smidt
It’s true what they say, that words are the true weapons. Those who fight with steel are limited to the strength of their arm, the reach of their blade, and the timing of their strike; but those who fight with persuasion know no limits – not time, nor status, nor chance.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Only strong women, and they seem to be rare, can handle a frank and direct woman who doesn't sweet-talk or need others to nerve her. You can identify the easily intimidated because they need a gaggle of like-minded clones to back them up when they feign offense, which is merely a guise for their insecurity.
— Donna Lynn Hope
The vacancy in your heart doesn't connotes that nobody is seeking for the job of servicing your feelings, but because the employee must first have all the necessary credentials needed for the job.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Often we read to strengthen our beliefs but not to think.
— Debasish Mridha
Never overestimate the strength of the torchbearer's arm, for even the strongest arms grow weary.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
You don’t have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you’re strong and noble enough to accept it.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
We can only discover our true strength through struggle. Don’t give up. Find out what you’re made of.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Sic vis pacem para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
She who leads with her heart is never forgotten.
— Turcois Ominek
Is the invisible presence of the Christian fellowship a reality and a help to the individual? Is the Word of God close to him as a comfort and a strength? Or does he misuse his aloneness contrary to the fellowship, the Word, and the prayer? The individual must realize that his hours of aloneness react upon the community. In his solitude he can sunder and besmirch the fellowship, or he can strengthen and hallow it. Every act of self-control of the Christian is also a service to the fellowship. One who returns to the Christian family fellowship after fighting the battle of the day brings with him the blessing of his aloneness, but he himself receives anew the blessing of the fellowship. Blessed is he who is alone in the strength of the fellowship and blessed is he who keeps the fellowship in the strength of aloneness. But the strength of aloneness and the strength of the fellowship is solely the strength of the Word of God, which is addressed to the individual in the fellowship.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
But Ana, how could I have been such a lousy judge of character?" I groaned."Because you don't much care to judge people's characters," she answered after a moment's thought. "It's a strength, you know, as well as weakness."It was small consolation.
— Chris Stewart
Even through the darkest phaseBe it thick or thinAlways someone marches braveHere beneath my skin
— k.d. lang
The only true wisdom lives far from mankind, out in the great loneliness, and it can be reached only through suffering. Privation and suffering alone can open the mind of man to all that is hidden to others.
— Igjugarjuk
Trials are used by God to teach you dependence on His grace rather than on your strength.
— Jim George
Our ability to transcend betrayal is directly tied to our willingness to identify ourselves as love activists rather than victims of the Universe.
— Lyna Jones, From Ashes to the Moon: A Memoir of Tears and Miracles.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may be picked up when we please.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
Getting ink felt right, like it would help her put her life in order, to move forwards. It was her body, despite the things that'd been done to it, and she wanted to claim it, to own it, to prove that to herself. She knew it wasn't magic, but the idea of writing her own identity felt like the closest she could get to reclaiming her life. Sometimes there's power in the act; sometimes there's strength in words. She wanted to find an image that represented those things she was feeling, to etch it on her skin as tangible proof of her decision to change.
— Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange
Vulnerability does not take away your strength
— Derek Hough
If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.
— Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live.
— Tehmina Durrani, My Feudal Lord
Much of your strength as a woman can come from the resolve to replenish and fill your own well and essence first, before taking care of others.
— Miranda J. Barrett, A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living
Vulnerability is strength. It is being honest about who you are & about your experiences.
— Tara Estacaan
Tumble me down, and I will sitUpon my ruines (smiling yet:)Teare me to tatters; yet I'le bePatient in my necessitie.Laugh at my scraps of cloathes, and shunMe, as a fear'd infection:Yet scarre-crow-like I'le walk as one,Neglecting thy derision.
— Robert  Herrick
In a fit of anger he had said to her, "You'll always be miserable," to which she thoughtfully replied, "Is that so? It's impossible to be miserable when you've known tragedy and hardship. Both strengthen and refine a person to the point where they may have moments of grief and sadness, but misery is known only to those who have a sense of entitlement...you know, people like you.
— Donna Lynn Hope
You matter. You're not broken. You're stronger than you think.
— Vironika Tugaleva
I don't tell her that my grasp on truth, on words, on people, has slipped. I was getting close, so close to normal again, and that's been snatched away. I'm not even back where I started. I'm somewhere else entirely, so far off the map I don't know where to turn next.
— Daisy Whitney, When You Were Here
What sets you apart from everyone else is your ability to dig deep when you’ve got nothing left. When you are broken, lost, exhausted. When you want to pack it all in and call it a day. That’s when you will find your strength. Find out who you are and what you are made of. And I guarantee you that when your body gives up and you are lying in a heap, your fucking heart will carry you the rest of the way.
— T. Gephart, A Time for Hope
to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength
— Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
Your best disguise is the strong impression your enemy has of you. Strong...and dead wrong.
— Michael Joseph Murano, Age of the Seer
There isn't a soul in this universe with the same gifts, strength, level of intelligence and as good as yourself!
— Unarine Ramaru
It's a choice, it’s a bold move - disassembling the Box - and one that requires assertion, but the rewards are remarkable!!
— Heidi Reagan
Build a strong foundation and you can reach even the most unthinkable heights.
— M.J. Moores
To seek is to show valor. To endure is to show strength. To believe all will arise in a time of perfection. There shows trust and faith in you.
— Tania Elizabeth, The Tier of Eternal Grace: The Souls Cry
The things you have are a shared effort, Gods blessings and human strength. Give thanks for the blessings in all situations.
— Unarine Ramaru
Drama entered my home last week, but I ushered it to the door and tossed it to the curb.
— Barbara Brooke, Glimmers
Today's effort is the strength for tomorrow
— Muhammad Saad Mansoor
Offering thanks and singing praises to God, compels the Lord to act in our behalf, to either calm the storm to a whisper, or to give us the strength to endure the storm. Whichever He chooses, He brings us out of our distress and into His peace." Meet Him on the Mountain pg. 138.
— Sheldon K. Bass
Sometimes God’s way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.
— Elizabeth George, Finding God's Path Through Your Trials: His Help for Every Difficulty You Face
Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength
— Prabhukrishna M
When we are needy Christ does His best work, but be warned. Someone, maybe even some well-meaning soul, is going to tell you, “Don’t worry. God will never give you more than you can handle.”I double-dog-dare you to find that in the scriptures. The closest you can come is found in 1 Corinthians 10:13: “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”This talks about an escape from temptation; it does not say that you will not be faced with more than you can handle. The mother whose baby is born and dies, the father who loses his eyesight in a construction accident and can no longer provide for his family, the child who hurries home from school every day hoping that his mother hasn’t yet succumbed to the cancer that he sees ravish her body day by day . . . all of these souls have more than they can handle—on their own.But with Christ as their companion on the journey through life—and only with Christ—all things are possible. Without Him, we fail no matter how far we manage on our own. We can never cross over without Christ and His all-access Atonement.
— Toni Sorenson