Strength Quotes

"The Eucharist is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak." "We must not be afraid of goodness or even tenderness." "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." "The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity." "It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable." "Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." "To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear It's not being completely unafraid To me, Fearless is having fears, Fearless is having doubts Lots of them To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death " "Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery" "Cancer can take away all my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul." "Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great" "My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger" "I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fucking heroic" "The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection" "Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak" "The weak in courage is strong in cunning" "What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing" "Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be" "The world is a match for us and we are a match for the world" "I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become" "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be "