Quotes About Endurance

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

The falling drops at last will wear the stone.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

Beth: "What are you, the Energizer Bunny?

The soul can't breathe without hope. Torture is to keep living after your soul has died.

This dog won't hunt. This horse won't jump. You get the general drift. However, he keeps on trying, but the fire won't burn, the kindling is wet, and the faint glow of the ember is weak and dying. He has no other choice then but to let It go and take a nap on the ground there, lying Next to her—for whom Dame Fortune has more Woes and tribulations yet in store.

Corinne is one of those people for whom life is just the space between crises.

DO you think it hurts to die? Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought.

You cannot be doomed, after all, as long as you can still see the faint outline of hope on the opposite shore.

All of us are grieving something. But while we are, we're putting one foot in front of the other. We're waking up to see another day. We're pushing through uncertainty, even if we can't yet see the light at the end of the tunnel. We are battered and broken, but we're all small miracles.

There was a look in their eyes, sometimes . . . They weren't dreading the trigger being pulled, even if the gun was already pointed at them. It was as if they ran toward it. I could not fathom this, at first. How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

Sometimes, all you can do is watch things burn, and wait for the ash to settle.

Something still exists as long as there's someone still around to remember it.

You couldn't fight the injustice of fate; you could only suffer it and hope that one day it might be different.

It's the Lord's will," she said quietly. "You get through it. You just never get over it.

we have to put one foot in front of the other every day and pray it will be better the next time the sun rises.

Marriage didnt really seem to be about love; it was about the ability to live together for a long period of time

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

Once you are close enough to see it coming, there's nothing to do but weather the storm.

I close my eyes, rub my thumb against the bridge of my nose to ward off the headache. Well, Rome wasn't built in a day.

The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it... some stories just don't have a happy ending

It's a world of permanence

If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.