As she elaborated in an email: "It was a powerful experience of the inner strength we have to create the lives we want, not the lives we settle for -- an inner strength greater than we often give ourselves credit for.
Her dedication, warmth, and inner strength remain a powerful source of inspiration to all of us at CCFA.
Now, more than three years later, Dr. Allison sees her cancer as "a really powerful experience" that helped her find inner strength, taught her not to sweat the little things, reconnected her to many people she rarely saw, and prompted her to communicate more directly with patients, who in the past had been just cells on a slide.
I may not look physically strong on the outside, but that inner strength is much more powerful.
It may seem like dubious praise, but by writing what at first appears to be an ineptly formed novel with dramatically stark images, Dugain has created a powerful fictional document, a work that celebrates its characters' unspoken inner strength and the curious bonds of their friendship.
As Beyoncé proudly proclaims in the powerful anthem "Freedom": "I had my ups and downs, but I always find the inner strength to pull myself up".
But the courage I'm talking about is this divine inner strength that everyone is born with, a strength to be your most authentic self and to take powerful actions consistent with your loving, compassionate heart.
She's found her old inner strength.
But he understood, showed his inner strength.
I was amazed at his inner strength.
