Quotes & Sayings About Becoming Strong Person

A common romantic script is the rescue. One person has a horrible past of abuse and betrayal and latches on to a romantic partner who wants to be the hero and protect her from all badness. The protection from harm quickly becomes a protection from consequences. The rescued princess uses the relationship as a safe environment where growth and becoming strong are not necessary. The relationship quickly becomes co-dependent. The victim cannot survive on her own, and the rescuer gets his identity from shielding her from the world. — Rory Miller

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist? — Indira Gandhi

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad. — Henrik Ibsen

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries. — Carol Bellamy

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding. — William Arthur Ward

I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol. — Peter Steele

Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Confidence you haven't earned always has the brightest glow. — Dennis Lehane

NASA's next urgent mission should be to send good poets into space so they can describe what it's really like.
Dangerous by Shannon Hale — Shannon Hale

Did he find that one last tender place to sink his teeth in? — Richard Siken

My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot. — Michelle Bachelet

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it. — George Bernard Shaw

The moon is a stone and the sky is full of deadly hardware, but oh God, how beautiful anyway. — Margaret Atwood

The person who helps you is the person who aids you in becoming independent and strong. Good teachers don't answer your questions, they ask you questions. — Frederick Lenz

Children don't do formal learning at desks in preschool or kindergarten, they learn through playing. — Lucy Crehan

He's becoming useless. Worse than useless," Sam said. Then, relenting, he said, "We'll get past it."
"You mean you and Quinn?"
"Yeah."
Astrid considered just keeping her mouth shut, not pushing it. But this was a talk she needed to have with Sam sooner or later. "I don't think he's going to get over it."
"You don't know him that well."
"He's jealous of you."
"Well, of course I am so terribly handsome," Sam said, straining to make a joke of it.
"He's one kind of person, you're another. When life is going along normally, you're sort of the same. But when life turns strange and scary, when there's a crisis, suddenly you're completely different people. It's not Quinn's fault, really, but he's not brave. He's not strong. You are. — Michael Grant

Until I am ready to lose weight, I cannot see how fat I am. — Mason Cooley

How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from huge tidal forces to variations in time. Personally, I'm voting on it having to do with gravity, either a polarization of the fields themselves or else something related to the time differential."
I didn't know physics had become a democracy," Hanan murmered. — Timothy Zahn

Enlightened spirit of the age is not the principal of life but a mirror that lets us see life through it's view. — Auliq Ice