Quotes about Strength
Let the fragments of love be reassembled in you. Only then will you have true courage. Hayden Carruth
- Wendell Berry
After you have said "thy will be done," what more can be said? And where do you find the strength to pray "thy will be done" after you see what it means?
- Wendell Berry
Though we invite, this healing comes in answer to another voice than ours; a strength not ours returns
- Wendell Berry
But there, in her diminishment, she seemed to resemble only herself, as if suffering finally had singled her out.
- Wendell Berry
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
- William Faulkner
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
- William Faulkner
She was the captain of her soul
- William Faulkner
You men,' she says. 'You durn men.
- William Faulkner
I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up
- William Faulkner
It surged up out of the water and stood for an instant upright upon that surging and heaving desolation like Christ.
- William Faulkner
He had been too successful, you see; his was that solitude of contempt and distrust which success brings to him who gained it because he was strong instead of merely lucky.
- William Faulkner
The lowly and invincible of the earth—to endure and endure and then endure, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.
- William Faulkner