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In the mirror, I look the same. But I am a different person inside.I am a prodigy who knows the truth. I know exactly what I'm going to do.
— Marie Lu, Legend
It's not enough to step in front of people's bullets; you have to be bulletproof too. You have to be harder than anything anyone else can throw at you, and sometimes you risk losing yourself just trying to save yourself.
— Anthony Breznican, Brutal Youth
When you are dealing with difficulties and you feel like you don't have the strength to stand anymore, do not allow yourself to see that as a sign of weakness, it is just a sign that you are human. Allow someone who cares to be strong for you. It is easier to be strong for someone else than it is it to be strong for yourself.
— Pinkie Numa
I realized that despite the fear and the bruises of life, one has to keep on fighting for one's dream. As Borges said in his writings "there is no other virtue than being brave." And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.
She refuses to take the easy way out by accepting the get-out-of-jail-free card that I offered her. She refuses to be allowed mistakes and though I know she will still make them because she is human, she will learn faster from them than someone who chooses to accept the excuses.
— J.A. Redmerski, Reviving Izabel
Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.
— Elizabeth George
The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
I'll never be the size that has single digits and my thighs will always touch when I walk but I'm ok with that.
— Sugar Jamison, Dangerous Curves Ahead
When its back's against the wall, even positivity will come out fighting!
— Serina Hartwell
Music gives strength to the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.
— Neil Strauss, Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
Our weakness is an invitation to discover God's strength.
— Carlos A.  Rodriguez, Designed For Inheritance: A Discovery of Sonship
Words have no power... which you do not give them.
— Bruce McAllister, The Village Sang to the Sea:  A Memoir of Magic
Every one was born with a guardian angel.Guardian angels brightens our journey of life with divine love,protection,peace, healing,grace,strength and miracles.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do.  I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.
— charlotte brönte
We hunger for quiet times
—  we find in them a womb to renew our strength.
Get the big picture! See 2 Believe!
— Leon Welch
To those who struggle comes strength.
— Toni Sorenson
Strong leaders are not the ones who do everything right. They are the ones to put a plan together, take risks, make mistakes, humbly admit their mistakes, take responsibility for failures, make necessary changes, do not fear correction, and with the trust of their followers and the team of which they were leading! -Clarity:Focusing on what matters / Week 40
— -Shandel Slaten
You should know by now that love is never a weakness, Ares. Love is the mortal world’s greatest strength.
— Gina Ardito, Chasing Adonis
The waves are rough in a sea of adversity. Learning to swim in that setting provides you with one heck of an opportunity.
— -Shandel Slaten
God’s strength will come to you when you faithfully read His Word.
— Jim George, One-Minute Insights for Men
If sheer strength is your only contribution to war, you will ultimately be defeated.
— Justin Weisner Starks
Doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength.
— Victoria Schwab, The Unbound
But strength doesn’t always mean brute force. You don’t have to kick ass to be a fighter. Violence doesn’t equal strength.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Finale
In the moment we're born, we're drawn to form a union with others. An abiding drive to connect, to love, to belong. In a perfect union, we find the strength we cannot find in ourselves. But the strength of the union cannot be known until it is tested.
— Emily Thorne
But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off.
— Victoria Schwab, The Unbound
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.
— James     Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women give themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provide them with the security they need in order to face life.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Strength conquers weakness through force. Weakness conquers strength through seduction,the look and feel of ease, the illusion of rest without responsibility,and the hallucination of unaccountability in general.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Weakness employs many weapons in its perpetual war against strength. True strength does not attack; it is too busy enduring attacks, and defending itself against weakness.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Your strength is beyond your own imagination.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You don't have to be strong, because the strength is in you; it's in your DNA, in your soul and your essence.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected fertile, wide-spreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants. A succession of navigable waters form a kind of chain round its borders, as if to bind them together; while the most noble rivers in the world, running at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual transportation of their various ties. With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice, that Providence has been pleased to give us this one connected country to one united people -a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by they their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.
— John Jay, The Federalist Papers
You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.
— Carrie Jones, Entice
Your suffering is here to help you unfold and to awaken into compassion, love and strength.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
In your serenity there is a clarity, strength and correctness that is beyond the petty scuffles of the moment — a greater truth. It is the truth of who you are; beautiful, calm, secure, open, willing and safe.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king
— Elizabeth I
I believe in love. I believe it transforms, transports, and transcends. I believe it fine-tunes goodness, solidifies strength, ripens resolve, eradicates rage, alleviates stress, and elevates empathy.
— Lisa Kogan
A man has the strength to face what he is thrown in life. If he falls or is beaten, he does not complain but gets up and rides in to face the challenge once more.
— Cheryl Matthynssens, The Blackguard
It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world.
— Tim Macartney-Snape
Your will has to be stronger than your excuses. Your will has to be stronger than your fear.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your pain is a divine rite of passage through which you will be reborn as a being of strength, wisdom and purpose.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
To move forth and grab your destiny is admirable. To shape your own future with the strength in your fist is beyond that.
— S.A. Bouraleh
Life is ever reaching for strength, vitality, survival and the fulfillment of perpetuating its inherent message of continuance.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You will not be the same after the storms of life; you will be stronger, wiser and more alive than ever before!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You have the heart of a warrior and you were designed to survive!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
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.
— Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
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.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
I can still make a fist, and breath still burns in my chest. So look at my face. Look at my mortal soul, and remember it. You did not crush me, and you will have the rest of eternity to think on it.
— Susan Dennard, Strange and Ever After
Real strength isn’t control. It’s knowing when to let go.
— Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing
The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.
— Paul Gauguin, The Writings of a Savage
We shall become, or we shall overcome.
— Anthony Liccione
Waiting with hope is very difficult, but true patience is expressed when we must even wait for hope. I will have reached the point of greatest strength once I have learned to wait for hope." George Matheson
— George Matheson
Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections.
— Ryan Lilly, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
Be the Kind of Woman that when Your Feet Hit the Floor Each Morning, the Devil Says, ‘Oh Crap, She’s Up!
— Anonymous
Rather than assuming weakness or defectiveness, we should acknowledge that getting through depression requires considerable strength. Rather than assuming permanent debility, we should recognize that some depressions are followed by thriving.
— Jonathan Rottenberg, The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
There were times my heart broke into painful fragments then my soul perseveringly gathered an ocean of strength on my voyage towards renewal.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
Meet struggle and master it, says nature, and you shall have strength and wisdom sufficient for all your needs.
— Napoleon Hill, You Can Work Your Own Miracles
He lay still, his bloodshot eyes staring blankly before him, and drifted into dreams of his problems, compulsively living out dialogues, summing up emotional scenes with his mother, Dot, and his friends. Repeatedly he chided himself to go to sleep, but it did no good, for he was hungry for these waking visions that depicted his dilemmas, yet he knew that such brooding did not help; in fact he was wasting his waning strength, for into these unreal dramas he was putting the whole of his ardent being. The long hours dragged on.
— Richard Wright, The Outsider
If it's about the strength, every big animal can catch any mouse... but the skillful brand of the cat makes it's catch exceptional! Go, get the skills!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.
— Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl
It takes some strength to fight. It takes greater strength to choose not to fight.
— Philip Gerard Oning
I've never believed in living for the ones you love. I believe in the power of death, I'd die for the ones that I love.
— Anna Van Breugel
Moments of prayer intruded on by sloth cannot be made up. We may get experience, but we cannot get back the rich freshness and strength which were wrapped up in those moments.
— Frederick W. Robertson
Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!
— Napoleon Hill, You Can Work Your Own Miracles
Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and greatest weakness.
— Unknown or The Archictect from the Matrix reloaded movie
Your castles and strongholds shall have bars of iron and bronze, and as your day, so shall your strength, your rest and security, be.” Deuteronomy 33:25 AMP
— Anonymous, Deuteronomy
Well, I am sure, for we do not achieve this by ourselves, but by the strength of StarClan within us.
— Erin Hunter, Moonrise
When you carry someone else's baggage, it's nearly impossible to get rid of your own. Drop it. Now.
— Cathryn Louis
He's the strongest man in the w
— Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking
You are entitled to your opinion but you are not entitled to dictate mine.
— Michelle N. Onuorah
People will tell you that you’re broken. Don’t believe them. They were not the person that could help you. They have not walked your path. God has got a plan to bring people into your life that have lived through a similar hell. In the end, it isn’t the number of people that are on your side. It is the people that understand what your side is that matters.
— Shannon L. Alder
Clary saw him take Mark's hand; he pressed his witchlight into the boy's palm, where it flickered, and then resumed its steady glow. 'Take this with you,' said Jace, 'for it can be dark in the land under the hill, and the years very long.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
Fire can destroy or purify, strengthen or weaken, all depending on the nature of the material being burned. Pain has the same effects on the human soul, and for the same reasons.
— Lance Conrad, The Price of Creation
Once you commit and decide that there is no turning back, you’ll find the strength.
— Marta Mrotek, Miracle in Progress: A Handbook for Holistic Recovery
If I'm able to use my voice to do good in the world then I definitely want to do that.
— Demi Lovato
...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. ... Thus, it is the communication process which is at the core of the vitality and integrity of science.
— Philip Abelson
Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from within.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Arrogance convinced me that by sheer determination, I could conquer helplessness itself. Stubborn and foolish youth, I must admit, for when I look back on those years now, I see quite clearly that rarely did I stand alone. Always there were friends, true and dear, lending me support even when I believed I did not want it, and even when I did not realize they were doing it. ...These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration. These were the friends who gave me my life.
— R.A. Salvatore
God doesn't mock us. He never gives us a goal that we cannot accomplish in His strength. I want to assure you, you can glorify God, you MUST glorify God. But you have to determine deep within your heart that you're going to do it His way.
— Charles R. Swindoll, Rise & Shine: A Wake Up Call
Do you feel like your action plans are stronger to than your capability? Just take a moment a draw a plan of how to deal with the difficult task with a single bite at each time. Go slow, but sure!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
All thinking things fear. Sentience, perhaps, is facing that fear and conquering it rather than succumbing. A tiger will drown in a tar pit, but a man who can clear his thoughts may survive.
— C.E. Murphy, Hands of Flame
Roar to your own beat!
— Janet Autherine, Growing into Greatness with God: 7 Paths to Greatness for our Sons and Daughters
Challenge each problem you face with purposeful thought and determined action. Resolve that 'every' situation you encounter will make you better, stronger, wiser, more skillful and more loving.
— Steve Brunkhorst
The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal fortitude.
— Charlotte Beers, I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work
Be strong. It is our adversity that leads us to our character.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
Xavier stares past her with watery eyes. 'Why does the world feel the need to drop its weight upon my shoulders?' he barely whispers. His mother strokes his hair.'Maybe it believes you can handle it,' she tells him. 'That though it is heavy, you are strong enough to carry it.
— Damiana, Untitled
Fighting physically signifies spiritual weakness.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
Sometimes life is not kind, and most times we have to hurt deeply in order to find out how strong and determined we really are.
— Yara Greathouse, Unavoidable
My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil."I back up another step and say, "She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplaced disgust for another person's genetics. That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own. ...
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Love is when unknowingly I am moving to a world of no return, Where my desire and your fragrance together burnall your thoughts in canvas of my mind and soulturns in to a masterpiece as my life's aim and goal looks I am taken over and over away by you showering in me as a rain of you and only you
— Seema Gupta
If you take a hard look at the people in your life, you may be blown away by how many explorers and survivalists surround you. Everyday, I'm amazed by the number of people I meet, who have climbed Mt. Everest, time and time again...without ever having been to the Himalayas.
— José N. Harris, Mi Vida
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.
— Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
You augment your strength every time you overcome obstacles. Discover and use that unique potential you have in coping well in a positive way no matter how worst the situation can be.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, like a squire from his country-house.Who am I? They often tell me I would talk to my warden freely and friendly and clearly, as though it were mine to command.Who am I? They also tell me I would bear the days of misfortune equably, smilingly, proudly, like one accustomed to win.Am I then really all that which other men tell of, or am I only what I know of myself, restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat, yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it all.Who am I? This or the other? Am I one person today, and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, and before myself a contemptibly woebegone weakling? Or is something within me still like a beaten army, fleeing in disorder from victory already achieved?Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Prison Poems
To be at peace, does not mean that you are amiss of every storm, it only means that you can find a calm within the storm.
— Tania Elizabeth, The Tier of Eternal Grace: The Souls Cry
Even the strongest, most well-built team will, at times, be met with adversity.  What makes us great is not that we should anticipate less adversity the stronger that we become, but rather that in anticipation of adversity we become stronger.”  -Michael Joling
— Michael Joling
Strength?” “Safety,” I said. And in that moment I realized that I’d always equated the two in my head, but they weren’t the same thing. Sometimes people were strongest at their most vulnerable, dangerous moments.
— Kate Avery Ellison, Frost
Someone's weaknesses are the strength which allows them to be human.
— M (Michelle) Carithers
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.
— Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception
— Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved.
— Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
Love is An invited deal for losing peace
— Seema Gupta
My Mother - AmmaHer touch was my solace,Her smile did encourage,Her love was my strength,Her stare, I fully decant,Her care was my power,Her joy was my shower,Her anger corrected my path,Her laughter filled my heart,Her silence made me ponder,Her glare was my reminder,Her scorn corrected my track,Her embrace I never did lack.
— Munindra Misra, Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme
It's her ability as an artist to see possibility where others see a blank page and, by extension, to see victory where others see certain defeat that truly empowers her...
— Sarah Cross, Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.
— John Connolly, The Infernals
the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and one will ever save you.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.
— Jim George
At times it may feel hopeless. That life is unforgiving. Breathe. In the hopelessness of life, we find hope and promise. We find strength.
— Tania Elizabeth, The Tier of Eternal Grace: The Moon Clearing
Sometimes we have to dig a little deeper, to reach a little higher.
— A.C. Anderson
Confidence is that internal alignment between what you know, what you believe and what you portray.
— Todd Stocker, Leading from the Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders
When the fuel is dried up in a vehicle, it stops driving automatically. You are a vehicle in the spiritual and the physical world, so you need some oil for alacrity, in order to get to your destination. The greater the quantity of your oil, the more you cover the distance, and the more you cover the distance, the closer you get to your success.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Divine love""Don't Leave me, ONLYTo carry my body on my two feet I need you
— Seema Gupta
Fate refuses to stop at the pretty part of the tale; Fate insists on more tests of courage and wit, a terrible end, even if the heroine's heart be pure and her crime accidental.
— Susann Cokal, The Kingdom of Little Wounds
Rise up, empower yourself and take a step. The only way to know that you still have some amount of strength in you when you fall is to attempt to rise up. However if you believe you don't have any strength, you will remain where you are!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Recovery itself is a very un-glamorous daily process of being willing to fall down again, to break again, to cry again, to get up and try yet again until ‘success’ manifests as ever-greater sustained healing.
— Shannon Cutts, Beating Ana: How to Outsmart Your Eating Disorder and Take Your Life Back
Gain strength through adversity…!
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
Revealing of origin , evidence the existence of hidden pearls in mind which is addicted to imagine and thought as well.
— Seema Gupta
In my life, I have but one anchor and that anchor is my God. I think if you look closely enough, you can even see it in my eyes, you'll see a strong place, an anchor. That is God.
— C. JoyBell C.
Devi-Mahatmayam has special meaning for spirituality, With illumination, wisdom, strength - to freedom finally!- 150 -
— Munindra Misra, Devi Mahatmayam in English Rhyme
When a man is at his weakest is where he will find the greatest opportunity to become his strongest.
— Calvin W. Allison, Growing in the Presence of God
I know, I know. You're a badass. The best of the best. But everyone has a weakness. Even you.
— Lindsey Allyson, Time Travel
Life must be lived at the right time. Death is not scary when one dies after having lived fully. One must choose to live though and face all adversities.
— Massimo Marino, Daimones
There is no substitute for the strength that blesses a couple when they work together.
— Elizabeth George
Take a few minutes.""No. He's already had more of my time than he was entitled to."Yes, he thought as she walked out of his office. Very much like her grandmother.
— Nora Roberts, The Villa
Temper is a valuable possession,Never lose it with your obsession,The best way to win a fight,- Do not be mad – it’s not right.Temper is the strength of all,Distemper – weakness and fall,Tempered steel – strong and grit,Distempered iron – weak and brit.
— Munindra Misra, PT. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father
Let out your heat!Unleash your imaginationLet the burning fragrance of your unimpeachable imaginationsparkle through the morning’s you.At night, let the stoical sweat of your day ease your musclesRelax your feet.You will need them to walk again tomorrow
— Priscilla Koranteng, Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living
I am an explorer,' she whispered, 'setting courageously off into the wild unknown.' It was not a daydream she'd ever had before, but she felt the familiar comfort of her imagination wrapping around her. She was an archeologist, a scientist, a treasure hunter. She was a master of land and sea. 'My life is an adventure.' she said, growing confident as she opened her eyes again. 'I will not be shackled to this satellite anymore.'Thorne tilted his head to one side. He waited for three heartbeats before sliding one hand down into hers. 'I have no idea what you're talking about,' he said. 'But we'll go with it.
— Marissa Meyer, Cress
People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant and don’t matter. They are not going to understand you, or even see the point of why God had you hang in there with them for so long. Remember this: Sometimes meeting someone has nothing to do with what you can provide for him or her and everything to do with what God needs you to recognize in that person. If you didn’t understand the message, God will keep sending the same person or situation into your life.
— Shannon L. Alder
It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.
— Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom
Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems.
— Gary   Hopkins
Any coward can instill fear. It's easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that's power.
— Nick Shamhart
While we may continue to use the wordssmart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopolyof those who believe in a single general intelligence has come to an end. Brain scientists and geneticists are documentingthe incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.
— Howard Gardner, Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century
We were fair game but we have kept out of the cesspool. We are strong. We are the good ones. Do not discover us for we lie together all in green like pond weeds. Hold me, my young dear, hold me.
— Anne Sexton
Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope of escaping it, I reasoned, was to know my own strength, to defy life by surviving it.
— Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time.
— Gary   Hopkins
The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed fingers, where we see the stretch of red-blood lines of man that fought for this land. The purity of white stripes that strips our sins, and the stars of Abraham's covenant, broad in a midnight blue sky. The rights our forefathers established. As it waves high in the currents of freedom, where the Torch of Liberty shines over the sea, does she give meaning to unity. When we strive as one nation, or when it drops half-mast, to a fallen soldier.
— Anthony Liccione
Father, be near as we are surrounded by this cloud of deep suffering. Open our eyes to see that you are all things, the light and the darkness, not only those things that seem good in our eyes, but the horrifying unexplainable. Wrap us up inside of the cloud and reveal the mysteries that can only be learned in places of sorrow, that when we walk out we will be as Moses, transformed by the shadow and beaming with the radiant light of your glory. Give us the strength to love on, though our hearts are broken.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
When others cannot find something to hold onto … we can reach out and be their anchor in that moment.
— Aaron Woodall
Live vertically, not horizontally.
— Shannon L. Alder
I was supposed to be powerless, and as a result they failed to see that I possessed claws.
— Nenia Campbell, Bleeds My Desire
The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.
— Sara Sheridan
Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?"Read more in A Daughter's Worth Novel
— Michelle Carithers
Family’s the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that’s where the spine and heart come in.
— Nora Roberts
Bad habits are like comfort zones; easier to get into, but harder to get out of.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
How can the face that welcomed me into the world be the face I'll soon forget? How can the body I came through be the body I don't really know?
— Michelle Carithers
Integrity is never given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time.
— Gary   Hopkins
Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?
— Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen
Courage is meant to be strong, while fear is meant to be broken
— Zoe Rosenberg
Grace does not contest the powers-that-be through an effective show of verifiable strength but through a persistent and subversive recoding of how one defines what strength and weakness are.
— Adam Miller, Badiou, Marion and St Paul: Immanent Grace
Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?
— Michelle Carithers
But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.
— Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute
Let Ian laugh. Let him believe pain will ruin me. I know better. I've already been ruined once, and I know how to rise from the ashes. I know how to find my broken pieces.
— C.J. Redwine, Deception
It is ironic that constructive thinkers are often misunderstood as negative, as they differ from those longing for positivity: constructive thinkers have been conditioned to find positive in negative rather than suffering from the negative in negative. Or as Paul the Apostle wrote, 'I have learned the secret to contentment in any and every circumstance.' He was right. Indeed the Lord is our strength, especially under the commandment to love one another. Otherwise we are nothing and easily thrown about by both our own and other people's mind control in a painful, mental, physical desperation to run from every thought, every thing, and every one not seeming so positive or immediately beneficial to us.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
When everything has gone down, God wants youto look up
— Richmond Akhigbe
Everyone needs to prove they're strong. The truly strong only have to do it once.
— Kit Rocha, Beyond Control
It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.
— Philippe Petit, Man on Wire
The height of your achievements is determined by the depth of your self-belief, the strength of your resolve and the intensity of your efforts.
— Roopleen
Deep the waves may be and cold, But Jehovah is our refuge, And His promise is our hold; For the Lord Himself hath said it, He, the faithful God and true: "When thou comest to the waters Thou shalt not go down, BUT THROUGH." Seas of sorrow, seas of trial, Bitterest anguish, fiercest pain, Rolling surges of temptation Sweeping over heart and brain They shall never overflow us For we know His word is true; All His waves and all His billows He will lead us safely through. Threatening breakers of destruction, Doubt's insidious undertow, Shall not sink us, shall not drag us Out to ocean depths of woe; For His promise shall sustain us, Praise the Lord, whose Word is true! We shall not go down, or under, For He saith, "Thou passest THROUGH
— Annie Johnson Flint
There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Life is like a game if you fail try again until you master and accomplish, but remember if you accomplish it glorify God who created you and gives you strength.
— Daniel Habil
But you need to make sure that the last thing you remember about today isn't that you fell down, it's that you got back up again. That's what we do when bad things happen to us.
— Michael Rowe, Wild Fell
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have. It doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, just empties today of its strength.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
William is the most skilled protector that I have ever seen. He is the best." Determination began to swell inside of me. "Then I will have to be better." Margo Westly
— Meredith T. Taylor, Churning Waters (The Churning Waters Saga)
Strength doesn't necessarily come from resisting fear, weakness, or any other feeling and overcoming it. Strength comes from looking at those things straight on--and accepting them as they really are.
— Kat Von D., Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love, and Tattooing
My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor
To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people.
— Kat Von D., Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love, and Tattooing
Being a part of the world in a healthy, mindful, present sense means learning to have complete faith that things will work out. Living in this world means that instead of cowering away, or giving up when the going gets a bit tough, get up and keep going. You’re not here merely to survive or fight your way through the world.
— Leigh Hershkovich
Almighty Freedom! give my venturous songThe force, the charm that to thy voice belong;Tis thine to shape my course, to light my way,To nerve my country with the patriot lay,To teach all men where all their interest lies,How rulers may be just and nations wise:Strong in thy strength I bend no suppliant knee,Invoke no miracle, no Muse but thee.
— Joel Barlow, The Columbiad
The power of the Will in a man, is favoured by the Heavens. The man who sets his Heart and Word onto something, and says "I will" no matter what obstacle is placed in his way— joins the ranks of the demi-gods. All else remain in mortality and are soon forgotten.
— C. JoyBell C.
That I’ve horrified many flight attendants across the globe with my oft-thought morbid ritual of listening to Tuesday’s Gone as we fly through the sky is not my concern. My declaration evident, my truth now burns: there is no preordained destiny to battle, I thumb my nose at fate. I am a warrior. The rules don’t apply.
— Ava Ayers, Pretty Hate
Your emotions will wander like a vagabond when you're indebted. Those happy moments with friends will soon be interrupted with a frowning creditor in your sub-conscious, and all your frenzy will be taken aback.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball...
— Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol 1, 1884-1933
If one lied, or put you down, don't mourn don't grieve, for why do you care, you don't want to be friends with the mean.
— Zoe Rosenberg
Trolls must continually feed their bottomless need, so be strong and patiently wait out their fires of hatred for eventually they eat their own.
— L.M. Fields
Determination in spite of the challenge makes us stronger.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Quite often you look for answers and strength in friends (supposed 2b) around you, without realizing All the true strength and honest answers come from within!!!
— v filipa ketteridge
Don’t give up on yourself. It’s incredibly cliche, but it’s true. The worst is yet to come if you give up on yourself. Hold yourself in high regard, and know that, though the ride may be bumpy and uncomfortable, there is a silver lining. You have to be able to see the good things in all that happens to you.
— Leigh Hershkovich
The Storms of This LifeWatching the distant clouds building and growing forevermoreThe harsh wind begins rushing thru the leaves with the branches bending to and froIn the attempts to not give in again I'm standing firm on all that I knowAnd extending out my hand reaching beyond the heavens aboveGrasping for His strength to hold on, along with the endurance to make it thruPraying that the ground beneath me will not erode nor engulf all that I love
— Christine Upton
So, when I thought June might take you away, I didn’t know what to do. I felt like she was taking everything that mattered to me. I felt like she was taking away from you all the things that I didn’t have. That’s why I’m sorry. I’m sorry because you shouldn’t have to be everything to me. I had you, but I’d forgotten that I had myself too.
— Marie Lu, Champion
And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.
— M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we’re made of, and we’re magnificent. We’re brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
In the end, He's the only reason that I made it. Sometimes that's the only thing we have. Whether you call it God, or hope, or faith -whatever word you use- the fact is, I couldn't have survived if I hadn't believed in something. It was the one part of me that neither Warren nor Allen could touch, and no matter what happens, as long as I have that, I've won.
— Elissa Wall, Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
Struggle is the meaning of life
—  defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.
Lord, whatsoever this day may bring, Thy name be praised. Be gracious unto me and help me. Grant me strength to bear whatsoever Thou dost send, And let not fear overrule me. I trust Thy grace, and commit my life wholly into Thy Hands. Whether I live or whether I die, I am with Thee and Thou are with me … Lord, I wait for Thy salvation, and for the coming of Thy Kingdom. Amen.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I feel I've lost every part of me...there's nothing left but the parts I've given to you. I need you to hold those pieces together. Please don't forget who I was...then...then there really will be nothing left.
— Cassandra Giovanni, Faded Perfection
Just as mental toughness and physical energy are the primary traits of an army, they also mark God's beautiful woman.
— Elizabeth George, Beautiful in God's Eyes: The Treasures of the Proverbs 31 Woman
At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.
— Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
— Kathryn Stockett, The Help
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading
No matter how old you are or how long--or short!--you've been married, the day you accelerate your growth in the Lord is the day your marriage is positively impacted, improved, and strengthened!
— Jim George, A Husband After God's Own Heart
The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.
— Elizabeth George, A Mom After God's Own Heart Devotional
Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.
— Anthony Liccione
Dream large and make yaour dreams defy the laws of gravity. Soar high and show your inner strength
— Lee Pryke
How do evil people find the strength to do good?
— Keith Hollihan, The Four Stages of Cruelty: A Novel
My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way.
— Ben Mitchell
Simply blessed.
— LaNina King
While one can love an irresponsible friend or a person with character flaws, alliances are built on respect, the responsibilities which arise out of that and knowing that together we can be stronger.
— Gisela Hausmann "Naked Determination 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear"
The Days tried to put inside me " weakness ..." .. But my soul will always beat " strength".
— Jad Alhadad
Since God is with you and you are with God, you have nothing to fear!
— Jim George, A Leader After God's Own Heart: 15 Ways to Lead with Strength
I just hope I'm around long enough to see it through.” Sara said, looking uncertain.“All of us wonder that, at some point or another,” Arch replied cryptically. “It's your destiny, and all of fate is aligning to see it come to pass. This next thirty days won't be easy. Hell is sending out its best fighters, and I'm sending out one of mine. I have faith that he will see you through.
— Rose Wynters, Voluptuous Vindication
Today is a great day of inspiration and gaining strength to move forward with determination and purpose.
— Lee Pryke
God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife.
— Elizabeth George, A Wife After God's Own Heart
This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love.
— Elizabeth George, Beautiful in God's Eyes: The Treasures of the Proverbs 31 Woman
If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you’re praying someone else will do for you.
— Shannon L. Alder
She was a woman of combined beauty and quiet strength. No wonder he had fallen in love with her so many years ago. No wonder he was in love with her now. And she would never know it.
— Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night
In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.
— Montesquieu, Persian Letters
A sacrifice is not about expecting God to break the bond you have with another person. You make the sacrifice on your own because God is more important than the bond.
— Shannon L. Alder