#strength

If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead. ↗

— Sena Jeter Naslund

#women #life

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#life

On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#heroic #individual-will #noble #prayer #strength

Though these young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years of their seething youth to hard and tedious study, if only to multiply tenfold their powers of serving the truth and the cause they have set before them as their goal--such a sacrifice is utterly beyond the strength of many of them. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#life

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#love #strength #love

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#calm #cheer #down #fetch #friend

The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses. ↗

— Paul Westphal

#game #hide #key #strengths #use

Coercing attitude drains your strength. ↗

— Toba Beta

#coercion #drain #life #strength #attitude

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. ↗

— William Shenstone

#displaying #ever #grounds #judicious #men

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better. ↗

— Mark Shields

#better #cause #individuals #more #numbers