Quotes About Endurance

History, like thermodynamics, won't let you out.

If you love someone, you should be there for them during the tough stretches, no matter the cost to yourself—or your job. Love's supposed to bear all things and endure all things. It's not supposed to fail.

that even when clouds hide the sun, it keeps on shining—just like your light. Amen.

I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.

Women in London must have learned not to breathe

We will reap a harvest if we do not give up. —GALATIANS 6:9

Iris Johansen

life moved in cycles of darkness and light, and even when things were darkest there was usually something bright to hold on to.

Even the longest day has its end.

There's an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie. [Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]

he who lives on hope will die fasting—

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.

Minor inconveniences are just that, and nothing more.

The previous night, she'd dragged herself

Quand mon coeur souffrait, il commençait à vivre.

They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run, and not be weary they shall walk and not faint.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.