Quotes About Endurance

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" or "Rome wasn't built in a day.

Grief was a strange companion. At first it had hit hard and strong, like a blast of frigid wind, a shuddering blow that left no air in his body. Then it subsided for a while, rising up from time to time like an adder, coiled and poised to sink its teeth into the flesh of its victim. Ian had tried outrunning it, then fighting it, but quickly found the best thing was to lie still and let it crash over him like a wave.

How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the same time bid me farewell. That is what real love is.

We are homesteading a claim here in old No Man's Land... In spite of droughts and hot winds, blizzards, dirt storms, hail storms, grasshoppers, and in fact almost every form of discouragement, the fascination of being so near the beginning of things, of finding ourselves not quite mastered by various calamities, has held us. We have always felt that if we could hold out a few more years we should succeed; our homestead would really become a home.

If you don't start with crazy, crazy love, the kind of love that Van Morrison sings about, then you don't have a shot to go the distance. Love's a marathon, Danny, not a sprint.

You are not easily rescued

It's amazing how good 50 and sunny feels after you've been bleeding in 12 with a wind chill of go fuck yourself.

It's a pathetic thing, hope, hard to kill.

I don't need help when it comes to self-soothing. I know how to survive and I will survive

Love's a marathon, Danny, not a sprint.

We're not defective. We're survivors. That's a good thing.

she came as near as ever she came to kneeling and thanking God for all good and all ill that He had ever sent upon her. She thought: next time I will wait and learn His purpose before I rail against His harshness. God was teacing her a mighty means of battle, she thought - a force stronger than force; He had whispered a secret in her ear - patience.

I had to hold fast to the end, and die of living.

Daisies. They outlast roses, and they're tough little flowers.

One can live without having survived

Before enduring it we will endure it.

Again time elapsed.

But how am I to live in the meantime?' I wailed. 'Tis for you to decide,' he said. 'You can be her enemy and make yourself miserable by it, or you can endure it. If 'twere me, I'd choose endurance.

Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.

There would be hard times, but what did I care if we had hard times? The branches of my love were wide, and they caught the rain and the snow. We would be okay, the two of us together. We would be okay.

sat on a broken-down

So that's all right then, isn't it?" she said. "If you can't go there with them, the best you can do is to be there when they get back." She reached over and touched his cheek. "We all suffer something, don't we?" she said. "Some of us just go down harder than others.

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

Never let 'em see you ache"; that's what Mr. Mayer always said. Or was it ass; "Never let 'em see your ass"?