No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
Max Lerner

My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It's very strange when you see your parents, who have always been your pillars of strength, suddenly become vulnerable. You don't know whether to be angry that they are not strong or devastated.
Emilia Fox