“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“It s not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that s what makes you strong.”
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
“It s not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It s that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It s not a weakness. It s your best strength.”
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
“But I also know that true strength comes from being willing to fail in order to progress.”
“Finding your authenticity gives you the path to be yourself. It gives you the freedom. It gives you strength and power which no one else in this world has.”
“Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he d held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it--he d known she was as strong has he was.”
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
“The weaker you are the louder you bark. -Tenten”