“My heart is so much more than it once was, even if it now beats outside my chest.”
Source: The Witch's Heart
“These times are hard, but I won't walk away jaded, darker, different. I feel. I cry to heal. If you saw me in those moments, maybe you'd think I was a mess. But I don't call it a mess. I call it strength.
Real strength isn't about building walls. Real strength is about staying open, no matter what. It's about taking life—with all the pleasures that fade and all the pain that sticks around for too long—and not shutting down, not closing down, not building up those walls.
Resilience isn't hard, impenetrable, iron. Resilience is flexible, soft, warm.
Stay strong. The real kind of strong. Don't let your automatic mind reflexes make you jump away from pain and towards pleasure. Make choices. See clearly. And never, ever, stop feeling.
Don't go numb. The world, even with all its horror, is too beautiful to miss.”
“But I also know that true strength comes from being willing to fail in order to progress.”
Source: Warrior of the Wild
“I ran out of strong.”
Source: Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
“The strong are always kind.”
Source: Vagabond, Volume 25
“You humble me, Nikki. Don't you see that? It must be clear from my expression that I do not, because he goes on. "If I do all those things for you--soothe you, center you, give you strength--then that is worth more to me than every penny I have earned building Stark International.”
Source: Claim Me
“not all strength is physical, Violet.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Mental strength induces mind and body.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“At times we relax in our comfort zone, and it takes leadership to recognize this and adjust our mindset.”
Source: A Script for Aspiring Women Leaders: 5 Keys to Success
“You always put things at risk. If you fell out of a tree as a child, I'd clean you up and bandage your knees, and next I looked you'd be out climbing again. You never learned your lesson."
Oh, she'd learned her lesson. Climb harder.”
Source: The Governess Affair