Quotes About Endurance

I'm forged hard out of pieces, like a bar of solid steel. There's nothing soft left. I'm too broken to be broken anymore.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.

Here's the thing about love, Mrs. Basil E. replied. You get a last chance. And then, when that doesn't work, you make yourself another last chance. Then another. Then another. You keep going until your last chances run out.

It's easier to start over than to work to make something last.

At that moment, I knew we could last past the end of summer. That with Parker, I could make a long-distance relationship work.That relationships were a lot like roller coasters. filled with highs and lows, terrifying split seconds, and awesome moments when you simply enjoy the ride.

I'm an ivy twined so long against a tower of strange design that I cannot now assume any other shape.

Yet we lift our feet. We lift our feet.

Since this is a hard and sad truth for the telling; those whom nature has sacrificed to her ends--her mysterious ends that often lie hidden--are sometimes endowed with a vast will to loving, with an endless capacity for suffering also, which must go hand in hand with their love. p 146

Humor und Geduld sind die beiden Kamele, mit denen man jede Wüste durchqueren kann. (Arabisches Sprichwort)

Was du schaffst überdauert die Zeit.

Chyna Shepherd, untouched and alive and able to pee.

Like all of us, I was born for joy. This broken world, however, breaks most of us, grinding relentlessly on its metaled tracks.

No matter what happens, everything will be all right in the long run.' 

Regardless of how hard the winds of chance might blow or how heavy the weight of experience might become, Stormy always stays on her feet...

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

Love scrubs the worst stains clean. Anyway, there can be no retreat in the face of evil, only resistance. And commitment.

The last twenty years had not been kind to him. He looked beaten by time, shrunken by care- and glad to be gone.

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning and that, when my last sun has set and my last moon has risen, when the dawn comes that marks the moment when I am born with the dead, there will be mercy.

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

Not all wounds are the bleeding kind

Three more words. Be happy. Persevere.

No matter what happens, disaster piled on calamity, no matter what, everything will be okay in the long run.