Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

Discipline is strength to the muscles your heels will need to climb up the hills of greatness

It is just the old way–that of obedience. If you have ever seen the Lord, if only from afar–if you have any vaguest suspicion that the Jew Jesus, who professed to have come from God,...

I don’t tell her that my grasp on truth, on words, on people, has slipped. I was getting close, so close to normal again, and that’s been snatched away. I’m not even back where I...

We seem to be coming down with all sorts of things. When we’re at full strength I think we’ll have a very nice team, but the question’s going to be, when is that going to...

We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.

If the night never ends, then there’s never a new day … and with a new day comes renewed hope, light.

A leap of faith doesn’t involve leg strength. Still, I can’t take any chances, so I’ve been doing squats.

Since the panel is carrying out its investigation in private, I can only surmise on the strength of each member’s credentials, coupled with the university’s well-defined policies, that they are doing a very thorough job.

May God strengthen you for a great work.

Don’t give up on yourself. It’s incredibly cliche, but it’s true. The worst is yet to come if you give up on yourself. Hold yourself in high regard, and know that, though the ride may...

Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.

Safety,” I said. And in that moment I realized that I’d always equated the two in my head, but they weren’t the same thing. Sometimes people were strongest at their most vulnerable, dangerous moments.

It is when things are at their worst that Allah will raise the best generation. The generation that the Prophet would be told Sahabat should look up to. So maybe the fact that you are...

He’s the strength of their team.

For me, I have to build strength in my arm. It is a big spring for me.

The JourneyOne day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice –though the whole housebegan to trembleand you felt the old tugat your ankles.”Mend my life!”each voice...

A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was?...

You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.

It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her human grandeur to an ever growing degree. Her strength, her purity...

Our ability to transcend betrayal is directly tied to our willingness to identify ourselves as love activists rather than victims of the Universe.

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called ‘the love of your fate.’ Whatever your fate is, whatever...

It is the image of physical brawn, sheer force, and commanding volume we so often associate with might. But I have found the might of an army exists in the faith of a child and...

His reasonable words centered me and allowed the gears of logic that ran my life to take over again.

I might not be physically strong.But I do believe that to survive, I need to be strong-willed.Which is more important in life?

She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens.

But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off.

Quoting Samuel Johnson: “Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women...

Arrogance convinced me that by sheer determination, I could conquer helplessness itself. Stubborn and foolish youth, I must admit, for when I look back on those years now, I see quite clearly that rarely did...

Happy endings are for people that can’t survive the alternative. What a bunch of wimps.

It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world.

I strike terror among men, I can’t be bothered by what they think.

Recovery itself is a very un-glamorous daily process of being willing to fall down again, to break again, to cry again, to get up and try yet again until ‘success’ manifests as ever-greater sustained healing.

The purest form of faith happens when you reach the bottom of your reasoning and find there is nothing that you can do that will make sense out of what you have been through.

It’s not strength, it’s PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you’ll change how you FEEL about it.

Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic.

I’m defending a just cause that gives me great spiritual and moral strength. This is no more than a cleansing to protect me against any circumstances.

Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.

Cassia.I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like...

As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the...

He had to do certain things just to get out of the state, but I really admire his strength through this whole thing.

George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.

Love must not entreat,’ she added, ‘or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.

Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems.

If there is one thing I refuse to do, it is to drown.

Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalescence was unexpected…. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day...