Quotes About Endurance

Det är underligt med kärlek, sa Sophia. Ju mer man älskar den andra dess mindre tycker den andra om en. Det är alldeles riktigt, anmärkte farmorn. Och vad gör man då? Man fortsätter att älska, svarade Sophia hotfullt. Man älskar värre och värre.

It's funny about love", Sophia said. "The more you love someone, the less he likes you back." "That's very true," Grandmother observed. "And so what do you do?" "You go on loving," said Sophia threateningly. "You love harder and harder.

there is no test in getting what you want when you want it; the true test of character transpires in the waiting. Dwell on this in moments of despair.' Mathu vanished an instant before the doctor and the constable entered the Abbey ruins, and I had an inkling that this was not the last I would see of my Fey brother.

There are flowers growing, and saplings are striving to push up past the ashes. There is life amid death. Hope in the midst of adversity.

A person had to keep herself in one piece when everything around her was falling apart.

day. You lost your man and

bottoming out for cotton. But these things do tend to

love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.

Those who have fought the good fight for longer in life are able to pray and encourage those who are weak," she would tell him.

oppression isn't a finite state. It's a weight that is carried until it becomes too heavy, and then it is thrown off.

I slowed my pace. Years of hauling water, wringing out clothes, scrubbing floors, emptying chamber pots, with no chance of beauty or color or light in my life, stretched before me like a landscape of flat land where, a long way off, the sea is visible but can never be reached.

To survive is to exist in spite of adversity.

There was a triumph in patience that no temporary application of force could conquer.

Look, I want to say, The worst thing you can imagine has already Zipped up its coat and is heading back Up the road to wherever it came from.

Who can say the word love When everything--everything--pushes back with the promise To grind itself to dust?

I am you, one day out of five, Tired, empty, hating what I carry But afraid to lay it down, stingy, Angry, doing violence to others By the sheer freight of my gloom, Halfway home, wanting to stop, to quit But keeping going mostly out of spite.

You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

Time wounds all heals.

It's not going to be over until we say so.

It's not going to be over," Kate said firmly, "until we say so.

In the meantime, there was nothing to do but exist and persist.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Milligan, having found nothing else to throw, had thrown himself.

A person needs a great deal of energy to stay awake all the time, and thus a great deal of food.