On being strong

"Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark."

Bryce Courtenay

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

Harriet Tubman

"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."

Mark Twain

"It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength. "

Mary Stewart

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies"

Mother Teresa

"There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken. There is a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable. There is a sorrow beyond all grief, which leads to joy. And a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength. There is a hollow space too vast for words through which we pass with each loss, out of whose darkness we are sanctioned into being"

Rashani

"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard to get kind: strength, courage, dignity."

Ruby Dee

"Strength is the willingness to take risks in a relationship, to disclose yourself with the intention of building a better relationship."

David W Johnson

"Her mother had always said that there was strength and power in the time right before dawn, and those who slept through it missed the best part of the day."

David Thurlo

"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. "

Maya Angelou

"Love came in so many forms. We love for weakness or strength, she thought, for security or wildness, for money, or beauty, or sometimes for sadness. Whatever reason, the brain turned giddy with self-worth, and self-worth became indelibly linked to the one who was loved."

Elizabeth Cox

"Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that I hadn't made it hard enough for him. Maybe it was like gathering your strength and hurling your body against a door you believe to be locked, and then the door opens easily - it wasn't locked at all - and you're standing looking into the room, trying to remember what it was you thought you wanted."

Curtis Sittenfeld

"I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldn't bear yours. That would take more strength than I have."

Diana Gabaldon