strength

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved.

If you take a hard look at the people in your life, you may be blown away by how many explorers and survivalists surround you. Everyday, I'm amazed by the number of people I meet, who have climbed Mt. Everest, time and time again...without ever having been to the Himalayas.

It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king

Real strength isn__ control. It__ knowing when to let go.

When its back's against the wall, even positivity will come out fighting!

It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.

I realized that despite the fear and the bruises of life, one has to keep on fighting for one's dream. As Borges said in his writings "there is no other virtue than being brave." And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate.' Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, 'This is what I need.' It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment--not discouragement--you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You__l see that this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

You don't have to be strong, because the strength is in you; it's in your DNA, in your soul and your essence.

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

She refuses to take the easy way out by accepting the get-out-of-jail-free card that I offered her. She refuses to be allowed mistakes and though I know she will still make them because she is human, she will learn faster from them than someone who chooses to accept the excuses.

When you carry someone else's baggage, it's nearly impossible to get rid of your own. Drop it. Now.

Any coward can instill fear. It's easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that's power.

To move forth and grab your destiny is admirable. To shape your own future with the strength in your fist is beyond that.

He lay still, his bloodshot eyes staring blankly before him, and drifted into dreams of his problems, compulsively living out dialogues, summing up emotional scenes with his mother, Dot, and his friends. Repeatedly he chided himself to go to sleep, but it did no good, for he was hungry for these waking visions that depicted his dilemmas, yet he knew that such brooding did not help; in fact he was wasting his waning strength, for into these unreal dramas he was putting the whole of his ardent being. The long hours dragged on.

Moments of prayer intruded on by sloth cannot be made up. We may get experience, but we cannot get back the rich freshness and strength which were wrapped up in those moments.

Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from within.