Tryna Stay Strong Quotes & Sayings

What is a man," said Athos, "who has no landscape? Nothing but mirrors and tides. — Anne Michaels

Brokenness a result of bitterness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Pirate Dreams
Needles and pins, Needles and pins,
Sew me a sail to catch me the wind.
Sew me a sail strong as the gale,
Carpenter, bring out your hammers and nails.
Hammers and nails, hammers and nails,
Build me a boat to go chasing the whales.
Chasing the whales, sailing the blue
Find me a captain and sign me a crew.
Captain and crew, captain and crew,
Take me, oh take me to anywhere new. — Shel Silverstein

Bowl of rejection," Kees was saying. "Or bowl of regret. That's what it comes down to, those are your choices. Which will taste worse? You ask me, rejection sucks, but you can choke it down. Regret will give you food poisoning for the rest of your life. — Suanne Laqueur

Now the wickedness of the world is already so great that it needs no more teaching to make it worse. On the whole, the less said the better. — Anonymous

But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love. — Virginia Woolf

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy. — Deb Caletti

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller. — William Shakespeare

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious. — Fulton J. Sheen

[I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which venerates its military above all other institutions, which demands that its soldiers be spoken of only with religious-like worship, and which continuously indoctrinates its population to believe that endless violence against numerous countries is necessary and just - all by instilling intense fear of the minorities who are the target of that endless violence - will be a country filled with citizens convinced of the virtues and nobility of aggression. — Glenn Greenwald

My dream is to empower myself with education, and then it is a weapon. — Malala Yousafzai

When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that father/husband/man that I want to be. So it's almost like this dark half that you have to satiate in order to become full, in order to become a good person. — Frank Iero

Cyber security like a game of chess, its main challenge not to win, but never surrender. — D.K.