strength

Those of us who embrace the feminine know its strength.

Mercy is stronger than your sword.

Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link.

Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?

Tony poured wine into each glass and handed one to Claire. __o you remember when we had wine at the Red Wing?__laire closed her eyes, recalling the scene from a lifetime ago, and nodded. __ do._____ been watching you for years. I was so nervous that night. I thought I was planning your acquisition._ He looked into his red liquid. Her stance straightened, __f you__e using business metaphors, may I suggest hostile takeover. It__ more appropriate.

Fate has carried me'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breastTo pierce another.

I have to learn to find that inner core of strength that I am definitely made up of and stretch it into areas where I don't always use it.

Then Samson said. With a donkeys jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand of them.

I want to live. I want to live life with all it's emotions, all it's experiences, I don't want to miss anyhting. But I feel like I will.

Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.

You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.

Thought is creative - Fear attracts like energy - Love is all there is.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

Now he could say for sure that he'd never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person - that rare feeling of not being alone anymore.

Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.

Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid___oldly angelic.

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

You know," Marion said, "I met a woman once when I was a teenager. I knew she had gone through a lot but she was so strong, so compassionate. I asked her how she could be the way she was, and you know what she told me?"Hadley shook her head. "She said, 'You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours.