Quotes about Strength

A dead fish can float with the stream, but it takes a man to swim against it. What

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid...

What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.

Always in the middle of our bloodiest battles you lay down your arms like flowering mines to conqueror me home.

To whom do I owe the power behind my voice, what strength I have become, yeasting up like sudden blood from under the bruised skin's blister? My father leaves his psychic print upon me, silent, intense, and unforgiving. But his is a distant lightning. Images of women flaming like torches adorn and define the borders of my journey, stand like dykes between me and the chaos. It is the images of women, kind and cruel, that lead me home.

Maybe that is all any bravery is, a stronger fear of not being brave.

You always learn from observing. You have to pick things up nonverbally because people will never tell you what you're supposed to know. You have to get it for yourself: whatever it is that you need in order to survive. You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for. This is the way genuine learning takes place.

Despair and isolation are my greatest internal enemies. I need to remember I am not alone, even when it feels that way. Now more than ever it is time to put my solitary ways behind me, even while protecting my solitude.

For women raised to fear, too often anger threatens annihilation. In the male construct of brute force, we were taught that our lives depended upon the good will of patriarchal power. The anger of others was to be avoided at all costs because there was nothing to be learned from it but pain, a judgment that we had been bad girls, come up lacking, not done what we were supposed to do. And if we accept our powerlessness, then of course any anger can destroy us.

You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for.