(noun) The quality or degree of being strong. Example: "It requires great strength to lift heavy objects."
"To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable."
"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."
"Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
"The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow."
"People do not lack strength; they lack will."
"The world breaks everyone, then some become strong at broken places."
"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."
"In separateness lies the world's greatest misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength."
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
"A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it."
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
"Hard times build determination and inner strength."