Alice Miller Quotes

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I’ve died but I opened my eyes again.

Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.

Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not, does it? It is there, the same madcap - Atman - mad upon one idea, intent and intense.

Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

Love is the only engine of survival

The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.

You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

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

When you have life, you can weather any storm. You're breathing. You have life.

The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally.

When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.

They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.

Beat me, hate me, you can never break me.

My enemies can take what they want, but my life is mine and so long as I breathe, it has value. I won't ever give up. Not again.