Juliet Marillier Quotes

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.

All we can do in life is push through the things that make us afraid and try to be better.

Once you've been through tough times, you can only become stronger.

Disabilities and misfortune can make you stronger.

You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.

May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.