Is it staying "true" to yourself" when you're being pushed another way. Is it standing up for what you believe in or for your own wants, needs, or desires in the face of opposition?
Is it "bending" without breaking for the benefit of someone else. Strong enough to put aside your own needs for the needs of someone else?
Is it the ability to compromise for a mutual benefit?
Or is it simply just "keeping on" when you feel weak, tired or like you can't continue?
Is it one of these or all these? And how do you know what and when?
When are you being "true to yourself" and not being selfish?
When is it bending with the strength to not break for the good of someone else or just giving in to someone else will?
- “Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.”
- Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
- Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
- When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
- All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
- Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution. ~
