Quotes About Endurance

God always has a reason for what you are asked to endure.

It's not how you start that's important, but how well you finish!

Inner joy enables you to choose to look beyond your pain and make your praise a sacrifice to God.

Pain (2) ...You want to give up, throw in the towel but you can't give up because you're all you have.

After the passing of irresistible music you must make do with a dripping faucet.

Some nights are three nights long, some days a mere noon hour, then whistled back to work, the heart dredging sludge.

There is the question of whether life is long enough to get over anything.

Courage alone was keeping the animal on its feet.

Be always like the sea, than breaking up against cliffs it finds always the force to try again.

The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it.

That was the way one had to do. To do the best one could, and accept things as they were. Usually, they did not seem so bad after a while; if they were not actually good, then they became so by virtue of the many things that were worse. Almost everything was relatively good. Eating was better than starving, living better than dying

Love is a deliberate and determined act of the will. There is nothing idle or passive about it. It doesn't wane or fail when life gets tough; it only grows stronger and more resolved. It's the bond that keeps your relationship from drifting when every storm in the ocean is raging to tear you apart. It's the one thing you can depend on when all of life seems bent on getting you down.

Seek, and you shall be disappointed. Knock, and the door shall be slammed in your face.

Try to think about having enough left to break a bottle over it.

Someday it all comes.

Only the survivors of a death and truly left alone

Il dolore non tiene le distanze. Il dolore arriva a ondate, parossismi, ansie improvvise che ti tagliano le gambe e ti accecano e cancellano la quotidianità della vita.

Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone.

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

Fierce loyalty. That's how the Kurds survived for two and a half thousand years while the Hitties and the Phrygians died out. Communal Loyalty.

Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

The day stretched out in front of him like an empty road in the desert.

Witches don't just quit