Quotes About Endurance

It came out an overpowering story, hinting at sickly relatives dying in inaccessible parts of the island, cross-country journeys, and a noble, if exhausted Ramillies crawling gamely home to be persuaded by an adoring wife to snatch what rest he might before attempting the feat of endurance which lay before him as a passenger on an almost epic flight.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

Consider, o consider the lowly mole. His small hands are sore and his snout bleedeth.

Patience is more worthy than miracle-working.

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

I know that I was often tired or in pain, but you just work through it.

Life is so long, and too hard, and then it ends so cruel and sudden!

Sometimes I wish the end would come... whatever it is

Running, I soon realized, was the best way to stay ahead of fear.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart--never.

Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.

When the end of the world comes, it won't be the ones that cry who survive, but the ones who spit.

Love is not this simple thing. Love isn't this obvious thing. It's not about that first moment of knowing. It's about what you keep doing after you break each other's hearts. It's about choosing each other on terrible days as well as on beautiful ones. It's about picking each other up off the floor and then laughing about it later. You can go pretty far into disaster as long as you're willing to look at each other again. You can fix a lot of failures. You can fail as long as you keep trying.

Eventually, ecstatic, she outlasted the night.

How many times can you be shattered in the toasting, a champagne flute lifted and listing? How many times will you survive, a woman made of her own history, and more than it? How many times can you put your heart back together? As many times as you need to. You can make it through this.

Los verdaderamente fuertes son los que en esta vida saben ser dulces y estar llenos de amor.

Maar hier staan Klipman, hy't niks oorgekom van dit nie. En hierie man van my, dink ek terwyl ek grot toe loop, is 'n annerlike man, want vuur en klip is nie owerste oor hom nie, nee. Dis annersom. Hy is die owerste oor vuur en klip, ahê". Klipman se arm is nog steeds om my, hy hou my nog allie tyd vas. Sal nie weer teensukkel teen hom nie, dink ek. Hy't my nou mooi saggebak. Ek is nou 'n gaar skilpadjie, hy kan my maar afdop.

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that . . . In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. —Albert Camus

You simply don't realize how much pain the human spirit can endure

Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Whatever had happened, she wondered, to the concept of reading as entertainment? Now it appeared to be an endurance contest as to how many pages the reader could get through without throwing up. (Lorinda, chapter 1)

Love – a carousel that anyone rides for as long as he can last out of how much he is willing to pay. Life, for most of us, also.

Misery is a binder (of the soul) stronger than happiness.