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Remember: You Have The Strength To Get Through This

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.
Holly Riordan
May 2, 2017
“Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.”
— Mike Norton, Fighting For Redemption
Tagged: Learning, Making Mistakes
“At your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.”
— Cecelia Ahern, Thanks For The Memories
Tagged: Weak, strength, Opposites
“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Tagged: strength, Strong, Feelings
“It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”
— Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
Tagged: strength, Fighting, Family
“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
— Judith Viorst, Love & Guilt & The Meaning Of Life, Etc
Tagged: strength, candy, chocolate
“Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”
— Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Tagged: strength, Brave, Exercise, eating
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
Tagged: strength, broken, Breaking
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free
Tagged: strength, resilient, Forgiving
“A quiet conscience makes one strong!”
— Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Tagged: strength, Quiet, Conscience
“I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind.”
— Tana French, Faithful Place
Tagged: strength, Women, Twenties
“Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn't need a man; be that girl who never backed down.”
— Taylor Swift, A quote by Taylor Swift
Tagged: strength, Independence, H4D-11
“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”
— Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot
Tagged: strength, Women, Defeat
“Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.”
— Chris Bradford, The Way Of The Sword
Tagged: strength, Giving Up, Quitting
“ho 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, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Tagged: strength, Trees, struggles
“The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.”
— Max Lucado, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
Tagged: strength, Today, tomorrow
“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, Bloodlines
Tagged: strength, Tough, Complaining
“There is a certain strength in being alone.”
— Heather Duffy Stone, This Is What I Want to Tell You
Tagged: strength, Alone, Single
“Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit.”
— Thea Harrison, Oracle's Moon(A Novel of the Elder Races)
Tagged: strength, Pretty, beauty
“Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.”
— Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw
Tagged: strength, Weak, Beliefs
“We know you're strong, but accepting help is its own kind of strength.”
— Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After: Companion to the Selection Series(The Selection Novella)
Tagged: strength, help, Acceptance
“Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.”
— Michel de Montaigne, Cannibales
Tagged: strength, Valor, Hearts, Souls
“You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.”
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Tagged: strength, Winner, warrior
“It's not strength, it's PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you'll change how you FEEL about it.”
— Yvonne N. Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir
Tagged: strength, Perception, Feelings
“I'm such a strong human being. I amaze myself even. If only you knew what I've been up against, you'd want my autograph. I'm a real life superhero.”
— Crystal Woods, Write Like No One Is Reading
Tagged: strength, Superhero, struggles
“I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.”
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
Tagged: strength, Rock Bottom, Courage
“Broken things can be made whole again. Perhaps not as they were before, but maybe stronger this time.”
— Carrie Ryan, The Dark and Hollow Places(Forest of Hands and Teeth)
Tagged: strength, broken, Stronger
“The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about.”
— Jonathan Harnisch, The Brutal Truth
Tagged: strength, Battles, secrecy
“There is strength in every struggle. Struggles create opportunities for you to become stronger, wiser and better.”
— Kemi Sogunle, Beyond the Pain
Tagged: strength, struggles, Wisdom
“There is nothing stronger than a woman who has beaten her way back from being beaten down in the first place.”
— Barbara Lieberman, The Playlist
Tagged: strength, Beaten, Survivor
“Weakness drives us to set goals, to try harder, to put forth more effort, to dream and wish and hope, to reach out further and down deeper, to pray earnestly, to cry mightily, to understand and empathize with valid sincerity. In truth, weakness is a catalyst for greater strength.”
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
Tagged: strength, Weakness, Sincere