Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

As long as I feel that inner strength, I'll be all right.

A network did not make me, and therefore, a network cannot break me.

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.

I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that's not true. We're all much stronger than we think we are.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.

I'm real mentally strong, so there's just not a lot that people can say to get me off of my own self and lane, and my confidence.

I just want people to know I'm mentally strong.

I think the inner strength that I have helps me stay calm.

I've taken great pride in not being fragile.

The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.

Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.

In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within. And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.