Quotes About Endurance

In a half hour I could kick open a furnace door and fling into the flames all the snakes and squeaking bats that lived inside me. Except the next morning they would writhe with new life in the ashes and come back home, stinking and hungry.

You treat loss just like death. It visits everyone and you don't let it prevail in your life.

I will endure until the stars wink out & the very last trace of heat ebbs from the cosmos & there is nothing but eternal icy nothingness

Of course people live in the short run, and the average worker trying to make ends meet during economic downturns in, say, 1841 or 1857 lacked the molifying perspective of an historian.

You've got to be strong to get old.

The stars are always shining...even when you can't see them.

It can't rain all the time.

Sarah: Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever...

one's capacity for happiness depends largely on how deeply one has suffered.

A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

Gardening is not outcome-oriented. A successful harvest is not the end of a gardener's existence, but only a phase of it. As any gardener knows, the vitality of a garden does not end with a harvest. It simply takes another form. Gardens do not die in the winter but quietly prepare for another season.

Harden your heart.

Beware the anger of a patient man.

There's always be a me and you.

I've been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn't fall nearly fast enough!"-Iggy

And then as always, I saw the prayer coming at me. And, as always, Number 1 killed me! Set me on fire, cooked me to medium rare and then ate me! I really, really, really hope I haven't just given away the ending of this story.

James Patterson

Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.

Just because life is hard and always ends in a bad way doesn't mean that all stories have to. Even if that's what they tell us in school and the New York Book Review.

Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to

Every masterpiece comes at the end of a long line of failures.

Coimhead feara fhear na foighrde. (Beware the anger of a patient man)

You string people along long enough, the string withers, then it breaks - Seamus

Always be strong no matter what!