strength

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don__ have to stay down.

God Lord, give me strength. Please keep the local firefighters away from me. Keep me out of the path of hardened abs and tall men in uniform, for they are bastards, one and all. Amen

I respect the hell out of her for how hard she__ working to be okay. I just wish she__ let me show her how to let go, how to let herself hurt. I want to take her pain.

We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don__ even realize or we refuse to admit we have_Vices can be lots of fun, or they can turn your life into a living hell. Accept them for what they are, just another aspect of the mind__ creation, and you can enjoy them__f you choose__ithout being broken by them.- Zeena Schreck for VICE Magazine

I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes.

Hot heart-blood leaked from my face. From my eyes and my nose and my mouth. Not tears, because those would never stop. This was just liquid heartbreak seeping from my pores.

It was then I truly realised the whale is no more a fish than I am. So much blood. This was not like the fish on the quay, fresh caught, lying flipping and flopping, death on a simmer. This was a fierce, boiling death. She died thrashing blindly in a slick of gore, full of pain and fury, gnashing her jaws, beating her tail, spewing lumps of slime and half-digested fish that fell stinking about us. It was vile. So much strength dies slowly.

There will be days that I don't think we'll know how to survive. But we will, because we have each other.

Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.

sometimes the only thing wrong with you is thinking something's wrong with you.

Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.

My hopes for pie died on the sidewalk. There went my grin.

To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours.

I'd discovered that the sun equated happiness. Its bright and lovely existence was hope incarnate. It exposed the dark, brought forth the light and showed you that no matter how strong or oppressive the night was, that it was infinitely stronger, exponentially more substantial and just because you couldn't see it with your eyes, didn't mean it wasn't still with you. it was stalwart and constant. It was infinite.

The greatest battle you must undertake, the foremost battle you must wage, the most important battle that there is, is the battle of courage versus fear _ and there can be only one victor _ that victor must be you and courage, or it shall be the dark side and death.

The prideful man qualifies himself by what people think of him, always looking for applause. There is another proud man; head bloodied by the world but eyes focused on what is good, never caring about spectators or the cost. He is proud that his wife can laugh, that his children can play, humbled by their love for him. His prayers say, "Please make me worthy of them" - In humility lies the foundation of strength.

I've lost a lot in my long life. Yes, I've seen pain and I've seen strife. But I'll never give up; I'll never let go. Because I'll always have my ray of hope.

Those who are not free to live as they choose are second class citizens. The weak will lose everything to the strong, even their lives.