Quotes About Endurance

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

That's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.

I have not healed so much as learned to sit still and wait while pain does its dancing work, trying not to panic or twist in ways that make the blades tear deeper, finally infecting the wounds.

In real time, darkness might last eight hours, but in psychological time, it can go for vast stretches.

On and on they went.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

they were determined to survive to the end of the voyage.

When he was done, he wiped himself with a length of pitch-covered rope, and then

set the stage for endless challenges to Magellan's authority, in other words, for mutiny.

Winter had navigated the Strait not just once, as Magellan and Drake had, but twice.

Three hundred and

Fletcher recalled, "this was the greatest." They were grateful to have overcome it, "but it was not the last.

And during foul weather, there was no cooking at all, and the sailors endured cold

in freezing weather. They were cold and exhausted; soon they would be starving.

Magellan's crew, confined aboard their ships, relied on worm-eaten biscuits

the exhausted crew finally reached the broad expanse of the river.

Rescue will come as a welcome interruption of…the survival voyage.

Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.

There was no fatal illness, only the exhaustion of endless grieving.

You gotta dig deep to rise high.

True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each other, as loyally brother shieldeth brother, remaining firm in spite of war and strife, in poverty or sickness, throughout life. True friendship doth endure while comrades age from boy to youth, from warrior to sage.

You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing.

She's going to get through this. Because she has to.

Sometimes, just when you think everything's gone, you find a way." Mia racked her mind for an explanation. "Like after a prairie fire. I saw one, years ago, when we were in Nebraska. It seems like the end of the world. The earth is all scorched and black and everything green is gone. But after the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow.