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“You've used your pretty legs to walk right into trouble." Neni laughed, the kind of mirthless laugh her mother used to emit when life was so strange only a laugh could give one the strength to face it.”

Book:Behold the Dreamers

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“Even at her sickest, she tried to create at least one drawing every single day. Sometimes she drew stuff out of her head. Other times, she sketched nurses and orderlies and other patients. Once, she was so tired that she could barely sit up, but she struggled through a detailed drawing of her own scrawny fingers holding a pencil.”

Inspirational Hope Strength Drawing Will

Book:I Kill the Mockingbird

Source: I Kill the Mockingbird

“Om sighed. ‘It’s reasonable, isn’t it? Think about it. The stronger ones hang around the edge, where there’s prey … I mean, people. The weak ones get pushed out to the sandy places, where people hardly ever go—’ ‘The strong gods,’ said Brutha, thoughtfully. ‘Gods that know about being strong.’ ‘That’s right.’ ‘Not gods that know what it feels like to be weak …’ ‘What? They wouldn’t last five minutes. It’s a god-eat-god world.’ ‘Perhaps that explains something about the nature of gods. Strength is hereditary. Like sin.”

God Sin Strength Gods

Book:Small Gods

Source: Small Gods

“we all are born with unbelievable inner potential and creative abilities, which, if fully manifested, will reveal our true potential and define our true self.”

Ability Strength Manifestation Potential Capability Dr Prem Trueself

Author:Dr Prem Jagyasi

“To leading a great life, it’s obvious that we must understand and appreciate our own self, our innate capabilities, talents, weak spots and, of course, strengths.”

Life Strength Appreciate Innate Yourself Understand Capabilities Course Weak Spots Own Self

Author:Dr Prem Jagyasi

“The gods are for whatever we wish. That is the point of gods. The gods will carry me onwards, and that is all that matters.”

Power Strength Wishes Gods

Book:The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 7: Mothering Invention

Source: The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 7: Mothering Invention

“If you want to survive, you're going to have to learn to be ruthless...”

Struggle Strength Survival Sickness Ruthless Seventeen Courageous Leadership

Book:Seventeen

Source: Seventeen

“This affliction is what makes me smarter. This disadvantage is what gives me my ambition.”

Strength Ambition Smartness

Book:Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

Source: Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

“We are together, all else can be endured.”

Family Strength

Book:Daughter of Moloka'i

Source: Daughter of Moloka'i

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