Discover Your Inner Strength: Quotes to Empower You - page 78

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.
Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.
 Anne Michaels
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
 Audre Lorde
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
 Louisa May Alcott
Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.
 Katherine Howe
I think only a superb news or reportage picture could move me. Other photographs may leave a strong impression on me, but they don't move me.
 Helmut Gernsheim
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
 Saint Francis de Sales
A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
 Epicurus
Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.
 Annabel Pitcher
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
 Viktor E. Frankl
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.
 Louis Schwartzberg
If you're not scared a lot you're not doing very much.
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?
 RuPaul
Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.
 Lord Chesterfield
I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
 Vita Sackville-West
I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.
 Margaret Cho