#strength

I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control... ↗

— Leila Meacham

#women-s-strength #historical

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels #courage #faith #haiku #haikus

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#individual #individual responsibility #judgment #like #nothing

Hold your dream Don't ever let it go. Be yourself And let the world take over. You'll find strength When people bring you down. They will see If you will only, only Believe ↗

— 'Hold Your Dream' song from Fame

#dreams #strength #dreams

Play to your strengths." "I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself. "Excuse me," growled Moody, "you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them. Think now. What are you best at? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#strengths #confidence

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#change #courage #depression #dragons #fears

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way. ↗

— Betty Smith

#strength #strength-through-adversity #survival #survival

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#honesty #strength #wall #honesty

Being single doesn't mean you're weak, it means that you're strong enough to wait for the right person. ↗

— Niall Horan

#strength #weakness

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 lash out. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#weakness