Quotes about Strength

I felt like I'd been emptied out from the inside, I was a bloody cavity, I couldn't breathe, my bones were made of wax, my soul had taken flight. And the world still turned as if nothing had happened: I stand up, take one step then another, find my voice and respond, I haven't lost my mind, I drink water, my mouth full of sand, my eyes burning, and my little girl stiff, frozen, sculpted in alabaster

Exert some independence; you're not a little girl. You can't let anyone else decide things for you. You have to take care of yourself in this world," she said.

I have lived in a rough sea where waves would lift me and then drop me to the bottom.

I do not fear my vulnerability because I no longer confuse it with weakness.

This is a road I must travel bleeding.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.