What Is Strength?
100 Answers
While the answers are infinite, here are 100 answers to the question: What is strength?
Strength is…
- Measured by more than physical power
- Acknowledging your emotions
- Carrying the weighty load that is not heavy
- Holding on
- When you keep on going, even after the fall
- Power
- Trying to get over it
- Surrendering to God
- Loving others
- Being brave
- Evident in Palestine
- Not defined by one thing
- Having faith
- Carrying a child
- Raising a child
- Letting go
- Not letting your weakness get the better of you
- Getting out of a warm bed
- Soldiering on
- Taking a break
- Asking for help
- Trusting God
- Carrying the dead body of your loved one
- What we hold onto
- Refusing to back out
- Speaking for those who cannot
- Keeping quiet when it’s hard not to
- Taking responsibility
- Saying goodbye
- Discipline
- Trying again
- Dedication
- Within us all
- Realising your beauty
- Not caring about those snide remarks
- Not following the crowd
- Choosing righteousness
- Perseverance
- Resilience
- More than a mental state
- Staying awake late into the night to finish your book, even while your eyes burn
- Pushing yourself
- Doing one more rep
- Letting your child take that independent step
- Falling in love
- Giving it your all
- Not giving up
- Not backing down
- Moving on
- Remembering
- Being truthful
- Standing up when no one else will
- Seeking truth
- Forbidding evil
- When you go out of your way for others
- Stopping cruelty
- Sticking to your morals
- Standing up for others
- Accepting
- Rejecting
- Believing
- Forgiving
- Realising your mistakes
- Admitting you have faults
- Knowing our actions have consequences
- Caring for others
- Trusting another
- Staying humble
- Not letting your ego win
- Channelling negativity into something positive
- Resisting the cliff’s call
- Owning up
- Giving
- Taking risks
- Being vulnerable
- Doing a presentation in front of a large audience
- Admitting that you are in love
- Acknowledging you were wrong but willing to learn
- Carrying on even after it burns
- What runs in our blood
- Lowering your gaze
- Taking that homemade remedy for your cold, even though it tastes awful
- Keeping a straight face in a bid to hold back your laugh
- Keeping back tears
- Letting your tears flow
- Not succumbing
- Fighting your demons
- Going to new lengths
- Rebelling (when needed)
- Standing up for what you believe in
- Facing fears
- Embracing change
- Sticking to it
- Selfless endeavours
- Courage to do the undoable
- A little every day
- Keeping your shaking hand still to take a photo
- Failing and trying again
- Self-control
- Being yourself
Strength appears in so many ways but is always within us. Remain strong. Become stronger. But know God is the strongest and God is the one who is in control, so never fret.
مَآ أَصَابَ مِن مُّصِيبَةٍ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ ۗ وَمَن يُؤْمِنۢ بِٱللَّهِ يَهْدِ قَلْبَهُۥ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ عَلِيمٌۭ
-No calamity befalls ˹anyone˺ except by Allah’s Will. And whoever has faith in Allah, He will ˹rightly˺ guide their hearts ˹through adversity˺. And Allah has ˹perfect˺ knowledge of all things. ~The Qur’an 64:11
Thank you for all the support and inspiration I have been blessed with from so many individuals, including but not limited to:
Dovey ♡
Beau
And all those who are keeping faith
