Quotes About Endurance

Sometimes your heart got broken, but you just held on. That was all there was.

We're all afraid," Anita said. "It's the going on that matters.

Her story—which is the story of a time and land and the indomitable will of a people—is my story; two lives woven together, and like any good story, ours will begin and end and begin again.

Mislim da ljubav jednostavno može...nestati. Ne,ne može-rekla je njezina majka. Pa kako onda- ?vrsto je držiš...Sve dok ti ne prokrvare ruke,a ni tada je ne puštaš.

She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was impossible as the other.

It is amazing how quickly a bone can heal. If only the heart were as durable.

Some things end. Love shouldn't be one of those things.

It was like stepping barefoot on a sharp bit of broken glass. She pulled the glass out and ran on, but the pain remained.

perhaps that's what life is, getting it wrong and going on, and still believing, always believing.

I kept an image of you in my mind through all of it.

They couldn't touch my heart. They couldn't change who I was inside. My body Ã¢â'¬Â¦ they broke that in the first days, but not my heart, V. Whatever he did, it was to your body, and your body will heal.

She thought she had grieved for Matthew, cried all the tears she had, but now she saw the desert of grief that lay before her. It could go on and on. The human body was eighty percent water; that meant she was literally made of tears.

Motherhood at times like this—most times—was about the steel in your spine, not the bend.

No matter how dark a place is, there are always moments of light.

You are my sunlight in the dark and the ground beneath my feet. Because of you, I can survive

If I've learned nothing else in the past few days, it's that happiness must be fought for.

It's amazing how quickly a bone can heal. If only the heart were as durable.

Love can get us through the hardest times. It can also be our hardest times.

The trip from Portland to New York City was like climbing Mount Everest without oxygen. It went on and on, and by the time you reached your destination, there was no sensation left in your extremities.

She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was as impossible as the other.

Hope is a coin I carry: an American penny, given to me by a man I came to love. There were times in my journey when I felt as if that penny and the hope it represented were the only things that kept me going.

A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it.

There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.

There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." —T. S. Eliot, from "East Coker