Strength

"When your worst demon is yourself, no one can use it against you." "عندما يكون أسوأ شياطينك هو ذاتك، لا يستطيع أحد أن يستخدمه ضدك."

"Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace." "العنف ضعف. والقوة الحقيقية لا تتجلى في الوحشية والهمجية، بل في الرقة والرحمة والجمال."

"Thinking more deeply into things usually left alone helps us to find bubbles of truth and clarity. When we realize we have power over our minds, we find strength, and that helps us float high along the forces of fate that order our motions within shapeless space." "إن التأمل العميق في ما يُهمل عادةً يُعيننا على اكتشاف ومضات من الحقيقة والوضوح. وعندما نعي أننا نملك سلطانًا على عقولنا، نستمد قوة تدفعنا للارتفاع عاليًا، مسايرين بذلك قوى القدر التي تُنظّم مساراتنا في فضاء لا متناهٍ."

"Stop reliant on human effort. Seek divine power."

"He can't value you more than you value yourself."

"Suffering fuels strength."

"Awaken my spirit. Awaken my soul. Awaken my strength."

"Endurance precedes success."

"In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest."

"Then Samson said. With a donkeys jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand of them."

"Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?... He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage..."

"Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds."

"it's not his bodythat changesright away.it's somethinginside. he sayshe wants tobe a littleweaker. i don'tunderstand.i say 'thinner'and he says'no, i wantto be strongerin a differentway.' notbecause of me,but for me."

"Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link."

"I'm not weak, I've just been strong for to long."

"You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you."

"Mercy is stronger than your sword."

"Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. She would kill herself rather than go on, she decided one night... Yet when she slept that night, she dreamt the dragon dream again. Viserys was not in it this time. There was only her and the dragon. Its scales were black as night, wet and slick with blood. Her blood, Dany sensed. Its eyes were pools of molten magma and when it opened its mouth, the flame came roaring out in a hot jet. She could hear it singing to her. She opened her arms to the fire, embraced it, let it swallow her whole, let it cleanse her and temper her and scour her clean. She could feel her flesh sear and blacken and slough away, could feel her blood boil and turn to steam, and yet there was no pain. She felt strong and new and fierce. And the next day, strangely, she did not seem to hurt quite as much."

"I want to live. I want to live life with all it's emotions, all it's experiences, I don't want to miss anyhting. But I feel like I will."

"I just want to say one thing. If I ever write a novel again, it's going to be in defense of weak women, inept and codependent women. I'm going to talk about all the great movies and songs and poetry that focus on such women. I'm going to toast Blanche Du Bois. I'm going to celebrate women who aren't afraid to show their need and their vulnerabilities. To be honest about how hard it can be to plow your way through a life that offers no guarantees about anything. I'm going to get on my metaphorical knees and thank women who fall apart, who cry and carry on and wail and wring their hands because you know what, Midge? We all need to cry. Thank God for women who can articulate their vulnerabilities and express what probably a lot of other people want to say and feel they can't. Those peoples' stronghold against falling apart themselves is the disdain they feel for women who do it for them. Strong. I'm starting to think that's as much a party line as anything else ever handed to women for their assigned roles. When do we get respect for our differences from men? Our strength is our weakness. Our ability to feel is our humanity. You know what? I'll bet if you talk to a hundred strong women, 99 of them would say 'I'm sick of being strong. I would like to be cared for. I would like someone else to make the goddamn decisions, I'm sick of making decisions.' I know this one woman who's a beacon of strength. A single mother who can do everything - even more than you, Midge. I ran into her not long ago and we went and got a coffee and you know what she told me? She told me that when she goes out to dinner with her guy, she asks him to order everything for her. Every single thing, drink to dessert. Because she just wants to unhitch. All of us dependent, weak women have the courage to do all the time what she can only do in a restaurant."