Quotes About Endurance

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist.

Being prepared to die is one of the greatest secrets of living.

Don't let him have the satisfaction of knowing you'll always be there waiting.

Let us learn to accept and appreciate things now, and we'll find more happiness in every moment we live. Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have. And remember, we have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of our life !!

We fight, laugh, love, cry, scream, yell, talk about our future, wanting to have a family. That's why I love you because no matter what we say or do to one another. We always are able to work it out in the end. You are the reason I love the reason I trust. You are the best in the world, and I am blessed to be your girl.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.

I had to remember how to eat afterward. It was like my throat'd close up. And if I ate too much, I'd lose it from my belly. Callie helped me get my strength up." Seth slid both hands into his hair. "And I started for home.

She'd do whatever Rylan asked. And if her collar strangled her, or if it was awkward scrubbing floors in a dress, then she'd remember Jesus on the cross and how He'd suffered. Then she'd compare her own meager pain and endure it quietly. A trace of peace crept through her as she prayed…

Without hope," he had said, "the rest is impossible.

Nights like this. They go on and on, outlasting the moon, because they're made of something else, something as quiet as a heartbeat and as sweeping as the wind.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.

Love didn't end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was. You couldn't command love to stop any more than a marriage document could order it to appear. Maybe love had to bleed away a drop at a time until your heart was numb and cold and mostly dead.

There are no rules when it comes to survival.

Three more days. That's what Sven always told me. When you think you're at the end of your rope, give it three more days. And then another three. Sometimes you'll find the rope is longer than you thought.

I know you have the patience of a rapidly decomposing turd.

and when the last star of the universe blinks silent, I will still be yours.

We already had three steps behind us. "Hold on, Lia," I whispered. Hold on for me.

When you think you're at the end of your rope, give it three more days. And then another three. Sometimes you'll find the rope is longer than you thought.

Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up