“The radical idea at the core of the strengths movement is that excellence is not the opposite of failure, and that, as such, you will learn little about excellence from studying failure.”
Source: Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
“As he grew older, Rogers struggled to work out a set of responses to the challenges of life that could turn his caring, his belief in love, and his great sensitivity into a life course based not on fragility, but on quiet strength. He found a way to be true to himself that enabled him to build a uniquely thoughtful set of defenses that relied on empathy and sympathy. Ultimately, he developed a powerful authenticity that propelled him to popularity.”
Source: The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
“All the turbulences opens up the next level of your strength.”
“Because our strengths are so great, we can afford to appraise our weaknesses with candor.”
Source: U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
“It turns out the greatest kinds of strength are hidden, and move slowly, and cannot be stopped by anything until they have changed the world.”
Source: Universe of Two: A Novel
“Love reigns to the Grave”
Source: Adrift in Acheron
“Sometimes all I want or need is someone to tell me I'm strong. Somehow it makes me strong just to hear it.”
Source: Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship Shared in Letters
“They loved Ender too, and knew him too; but in their grief, they leaned upon each other, a family that had strength to share because Ender had been part of them and healed them, or at least opened up the door of healing.”
Source: Children of the Mind
“Comfort and strength to all those who have lost their loves ones. The ones they are close with and the ones they know.
Psalms 34 : 17-18”
“Out there may be monsters, my dear.
But in you still lives the dragon
you should always believe in.”
Source: Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul