Quotes About Endurance

she fought back the only way she knew how—by caring for her fellow prisoners and helping them to stay strong.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

This book is dedicated to "us." The girls. Friends who see one another through the hard times, big and small, year in and year out.

Love doesn't fade or die

Remember, cara, hard times don't last. Land and family do." TWELVE In November, the first winter storm battered them from the north, leaving behind a fine layer of snow.

Women wrote their names on scraps of paper or cloth and shoved them through cracks in the carriage walls, hoping against hope to be remembered.

Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation

This is how my love for her goes on: in moments remembered and moments imagined. It's how I keep her alive. Hers is the voice in my head, in my conscience. I see the world, at least in part, through her eyes. 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.

Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, salvation.

Jack says I am a warrior and, while I don't believe it, I know this: A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.

They couldn't touch my heart. They couldn't change who I was inside. My body...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.

Do you ever get tired of being strong?" "Oh, honey, of course.

Time. It was the rack everything hung on: life, loss, hope, love.

If you're going through hell, keep going. —WINSTON CHURCHILL

If you're going through hell, keep going. —WINSTON CHURCHILL May

Like her, they held on to the unproven hope/belief that more work might save them.

A warrior never gives up.

Don't stop believing until you have to, and certainly don't stop then.

Jack says that I am a warrior and, while I don't believe it, I know this: A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

this wasn't the end. She had to remember that. Each day she lived there was a chance for salvation. She couldn't give up. She could never give up.

Las heridas se cierran. El amor perdura. Permanecemos.

Hard times don't last. Love does.

We each survive our own way.