Myrtle Reed Quotes

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Most guys, tough or not, hide emotions. I know a lot of tough guys; they're just as weak as the next man, but they don't show it.

Tears aren't a woman's only weapon.

Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper.

But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

You know how there's always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? I'm not that girl. It takes a lot to get me to that place.

My mom's one of the toughest ladies I know. I've seen her lose both her brothers, both her parents. She's been through a lot, and to see her get up every day and put a smile on her face, that shows nothing but strength.

Don't hold back from being an 'empath.' Don't be afraid of shedding your tears. Feel it. Feel the full extent of everything. It gives us strength.

I don't cry easily.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.

I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.

How to survive boarding school. Do not express emotion, do not feel emotion, do not have emotion. If someone hits you, hit them back, if someone argues with you, argue back, never give in an inch, never look vulnerable and you will survive.

...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof. Like washable beaver hats that improve with rain, his nerves were rendered stouter and more vigorous, by showers of tears, which, being tokens of weakness, and so far tacit admissions of his own power, pleased and exalted him.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.

Crying is not a weakness. It's something that should be able to work for you. It should also be a strength. I think if you can cry when you feel like crying it's a strength. If you feel like crying and you can't cry, that's a weakness. That means you're holding all that stuff inside.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

It takes strength to show vulnerability.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.