Quotes About Loss And Strength

#1. Rather than the strength it takes to not lose, it's the strength to stand back up after a loss that is sometimes more valuable. - Author: Kyo Shirodaira

#2. I am thinking of our family's women
as faraway bulbs, their history
with crippling loss, and
how I am pieced together, shell and sand,
from the spine of their collective strength. - Author: Jerrold Yam

#3. I believe I gather strength from the generations of women who came before me - that together we all hold the suffering of the world. - Author: Elizabeth Berrien

#4. [The loss- of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base. - Author: Kenneth E. Boulding

#5. You can't wait for the race to start to get ready. That's a loss. You must get your mind right before you get to the starting line. Mindset is everything! - Author: Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#6. Heartbreak , death and loss were shared between us, but renewal, commitment and strength as well. - Author: Laura Ward

#7. What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love? - Author: Rachel L. Schade

#8. One person can only lose so much before he starts to realize that he's not strong enough to lose any more. - Author: Ellie Wade

#9. Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear. - Author: Christina Baker Kline

#10. I'm not against working out. It's just not effective for weight loss. I like strength training to tone and firm the body so you look tight. But working out just makes you hungrier. - Author: Jorge Cruise

#11. The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs. - Author: George F. Kennan

#12. You see, evil men, the likes of whom have sought to enslave their fellow man since the dawn of creation, took America not by might or strength of arms, but by deception and guile. - Author: Eric J. Martindale

#13. Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. - Author: Jose N. Harris

#14. We know the end is overrated, we'll become the walls we raise. We don't believe enough, but we still care. - Author: Matchbox 20

#15. Yes," I whisper so the others won't hear, "but being afraid is good because it means I still have more to lose. - Author: Caroline George

#16. Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don't know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad. - Author: Kate McGahan

#17. Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent vast hostility of the elements, he rages against futility and asserts his right of being - Author: Jim Perrin

#18. Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim. - Author: Vicki Harrison

#19. I die a little everyday, in trying to revive what I lost yesterday! - Author: Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#20. I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered. But do not believe what you feel. You will not be easily broken. - Author: Rachel L. Schade

#21. As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable. - Author: Clifford Geertz

#22. To know that I was known by a new living being, who had not existed until she was made in my body by my desire and brought forth into the world by my pain and strength - that changed me. My heart, which seemed to have had only loss and grief in it before, now had joy in it also. - Author: Wendell Berry

#23. Because of fear, I had forfeited strength, life, and beauty. I had lost a sense of my true self, and with that loss so much of what God wanted for me was yet unrealized. - Author: Lisa Bevere

#24. May you find the strength and resolve today, to allow a deeper sense of healing to begin. - Author: Eleesha

#25. She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it. - Author: David Anthony Durham

#26. Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end. - Author: Laozi

#27. I have the right to try to overcome the challenges in my own life, she continued fiercely. Who's to say that's not what makes as strong and decent? How much character and strength do you think someone who's never had any sorrow or loss of hardship possesses, My lord? - Author: Joey W. Hill

#28. For a hunter, her shields were surprisingly weak, as if she somehow still saw innocence in the world.
Then she will kill you. She will make you mortal.
Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him? - Author: Nalini Singh

#29. And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself. - Author: Rachel L. Schade

#30. It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty. - Author: Dalai Lama

#31. I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society. - Author: Sasha Azevedo

#32. Explaining one's recent loss as more of a continuous journey rather than a dead end, giving one of the invaluable opportunity to gain strength and learn about oneself, and thereby turning this terribly tragic affair into something hugely positive. - Author: Cecelia Ahern

#33. Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body. - Author: Jane Fonda

#34. You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss - Author: Jodi Picoult

#35. Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. - Author: Oivd

#36. You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue. - Author: Dee Remy

#37. I have no bone loss, no brain loss, I have a lot of energy and a lot of strength, my heart is perfect so I think I 'm more ready than I would have been in my 20s, honest to God. - Author: Suzanne Somers

#38. Americans take their strength in victories, Mexicans' strength is in their ability to suffer loss. - Author: Don Winslow

#39. I was in love and love died and the pain you've left isn't pain I can see myself having the strength to face again. - Author: Adam Silvera

#40. they greet those who are cast down, and those in heart, those troubled adn those filled with desire, those who are overjoyed and those disconsolate, all lovers. may all herein find strength against inconstancy, against unfairness and despite and loss and pain and all the bitterness of loving. - Author: Joseph Bedier

#41. The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll tell you what does - it's the lack of strength - you can't hold up suitcases and do it yourself. Loss of physical strength. - Author: Anita Roddick

#42. True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day. - Author: Mandy Hale

#43. Loss taught me the strength of faith. Faith in a God who understands. Faith in a Saviour who gave His all. Faith in a Comforter who walked by my side. - Author: Nana Awere Damoah

#44. Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving. - Author: Ash Parsons

#45. What no one really talks about, though, is the main reason many of us fail with our weight loss efforts: our minds won't let us. - Author: Helen M. Ryan

#46. The inactivity of a conqueror betrays the loss of strength and blood ... - Author: Edward Gibbon