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...

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.

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.

I’m a lion in a strange land.

If you’re facing a season of trials, don’t allow the enemy to have a field day by putting negative thoughts in your mind. Let go of stinking thinking. Instead of turning away from God in...

The ones who live for themselves find it easier to follow their dreams.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. ‘Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.’ How monotonous, how useless this becomes....

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don’t have to stay down.

My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted...

My faith is stong enough to endure, kind enough to feel, big enough to accommodate.

The prideful man qualifies himself by what people think of him, always looking for applause. There is another proud man; head bloodied by the world but eyes focused on what is good, never caring about...

Love is most weak when there is more doubt than there is trust but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts.

I want to listen to accomplished women scarred by sexism that still walk in elegance and kindness; hear powerful men that have a heart to serve. I want to talk to the brokenhearted that still...

Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.

What Do the Trees Know?What do the trees know? To bend when all the wild winds blow. Roots are deep and time is slow. All we grasp we must let go.What do the trees know?...

My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way.

You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.

To be thankful for just being alive…To survive means to win… That only applies to animals, but I’m a human being!

The policy makers are not serious over the issue of improving the overall strength of the capital market.

I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it...

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.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

Fight for what you want because forever is a long time to be a quitter.

He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what...

Isn’t it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a...

Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

If you’re using business metaphors, may I suggest hostile takeover. It’s more appropriate.

Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.

It’s just a minor piece of the puzzle, but it does show the continued strength of imports – an excessive demand is a problem for the Fed.

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n’ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at...

I can do it, Max. I still have my thoughts. I just can’t say them out loud. I still have my friends. I just can’t show them. I still have all the things that used...

The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel still sit on the hill, and drink vodka, and wear black furs, and slurp borscht by...

Love is my strength, love is my power.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to...

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his...

Despite the restrictions, we are safe within (the Box). But – and here is the problem – once we identify something more, that awareness irrevocably changes our perceptions of the Box.

The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like a flowing river of release. What happens will happen anyways,...

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

Allison was at full strength when it came to one thing:attitude.

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.”...

This is definitely the wrong time to allow fear and doubts to hold you back. Push yourself far away from your fearful past and into a blissful and prosperous future. God is your guide, protection,...

When you were in a room with Kurtis James, whether it was one or a hundred other people, Kurtis seemed to be the only one there

You want to be beaten, pummelled and driven away, so you have a reason to shut everyone out, and say ‘I told you so’ when it all goes to shit. The thing is, we all...

Everyone including YOU suffers when you refuse to BE all & DO all you can

Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the...

Only strong women, and they seem to be rare, can handle a frank and direct woman who doesn’t sweet-talk or need others to nerve her. You can identify the easily intimidated because they need a...