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Quotes about Strength

The trick is not caring that it hurts.
— Barack Obama
But know this America: we will meet them
— Barack Obama
America, I never said this journey would be easy, and I won't promise that now. Yes, our path is harder — but it leads to a better place. Yes our road is longer — but we travel it together. We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes...
— Barack Obama
Without shelter, we stand in daylight.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I don't know how you go on, but I really hope you'll keep doing it. That you won't give up esperanza. I thought of that last night. Esperanza is all you get, no second chances. What you have to do is try and think of reasons to stick it out.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It is in his absence I prosper.
— Barbara Kingsolver
In the scullery kitchens and probably the salt mines of this world, many a child is not so much raised as hammered into shape, Artie. To be of use. Surviving by the grace of utility alone.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I'm saying when God slams a door on you it's probably a shitstorm. You're going to end up in rubble. But it's okay because without all that crap overhead, you're standing in the daylight.
— Barbara Kingsolver
it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
— Barbara Kingsolver
He's that same kind of good like you are. Like there's some metal or something in you that won't melt down, no matter what.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
— Stephen Covey