I believe being strong means I can kiss you and still fight my enemies and succeed. I can show emotion and be complicated and hope for love and family and friends in a world that...

Sic vis pacem para bellum – if you want peace, prepare for war.

And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yourself going.

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

Then Samson said. With a donkeys jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey’s jawbone I have killed a thousand of them.

This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you’ll trade for power. For...

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith….

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They...

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

It’s impossible to walk through solid rock… You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.

Vulnerability does not take away your strength

Gain strength through adversity…!

It was supposed to say “Great Artist” on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say “such a good teacher/daughter/friend” instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big...

The biggest thing, aside from his strength, is he always changes things up. He doesn’t do the same thing every time. He’s definitely an underrated cornerback.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

No god craves weaklings.

I’m stronger than a pack of crackers and a pack of midgets, but not the PAC 12. PAC 11, maybe, but not 12.

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

By God’s grace and mighty power, we can do great deeds.

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when...

I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

Those are areas that have shown real strength.

I believe in love. I believe it transforms, transports, and transcends. I believe it fine-tunes goodness, solidifies strength, ripens resolve, eradicates rage, alleviates stress, and elevates empathy.

But if you ask me what I remember (about 1945), I will say it was the year Franklin D. Roosevelt died and I got one of his flowers. I will tell you that yellow rose...

Plants die off when their roots have no water to sustain them. May your tears feed the roots of love in your heart and bring healing to your soul. May God grant you the strength...

Any coward can instill fear. It’s easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that’s power.

Normally, this value would correspond to a system of hurricane strength.

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

Life must be lived at the right time. Death is not scary when one dies after having lived fully. One must choose to live though and face all adversities.

the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and one...

And yet, because I am without a doubt mortal, I have the troubling desire to do good, to please, to communicate my warmth, to still be very beautiful sometimes to inspire a taste for beauty....

Life has moments that feel as if the sun has blackened to tar and the entire world turned to ice. It feels as if Hades and his vile demons have risen from the depths of...

I used to think you were weak and just didn’t fight back … but now, honestly, I think you’re actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and...

There are two bonds formed – belonging together and suffering together.Which bond will withstand the true test of Darkness?

The greatness of the man’s power is the measure of his surrender.

doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength.

We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.

If one lied, or put you down, don’t mourn don’t grieve, for why do you care, you don’t want to be friends with the mean.

Base and precious metals remain in a virtuous circle with each appearing to feed off the strength of the others.

I’m grateful I had the strength to fight. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come, especially when you are flat on your back and don’t know if you’re going to see...

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God’s strength is always there for us.

Stupidity isn’t the only thing humans carry inside of them. I’ll show you that we also have the power to purify.

Live vertically, not horizontally.

I like being a woman in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

That I’ve horrified many flight attendants across the globe with my oft-thought morbid ritual of listening to Tuesday’s Gone as we fly through the sky is not my concern. My declaration evident, my truth now...

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

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

The first gift is Strength. May you remember to call upon it whenever you need it.

That’s exactly what I’ll do, I thought to myself. After dinner, I’m going to ask BigBrother to teach me how to read this map. With Aunt Baba still in Tianjin, there’sobviously nobody looking out for...