Quotes About Endurance

Grace grows best in winter.

Mother Teresa. According to her own journal, she was in her dark night more or less from 1948 until near the time of her death in 1997.

Resolution, the ability and determination to see things through to the end. However unexpected or disappointing that end turns out to be.

I knew I'd get stick

But rocks falling on our heads can't happen anymore," Alik insisted. "We're not fucking dumbasses like the dinosaurs; we're here to stay. It's Darwin.

Always trust in proven survivors.

Hope doesn't die just because a life is lost, or even a million lives.

Life's a bitch, then you rejuvenate and do it all over again.

I'm hard to get rid of." He smiled. All Tegan's suspicions about the boy came flooding back. "So it seems," she replied icily.

posible que me caiga —concluí—, pero mientras siga respirando y tenga fuerzas para seguir esforzándome, me levantaré.

In qualche modo è come quando avevamo diciassette anni. Crediamo che la disperazione ci bloccherà completamente, ma non lo fa, si incapsula in un punto scuro da qualche parte dentro di noi, e costringe il resto del sistema a funzionare , a occuparsi di cose pratiche che forse non sono importanti ma che ci tengono in movimento, garantendo che in qualche modo siamo vivi.

Time is something you have to hold on to.

Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.

It was not as if they lived, exactly, but maybe they were not lost forever to the great dark. That they endured in the weather and the seasons.

There is a pain you can't think your way out of. You can't talk it away. If there were someone to talk to. You can walk. One foot the other foot. Breathe in breathe out. Drink from the stream. Piss. Eat the venison strips. Leave his venison in the trail for the coyotes the jays. And. You can't metabolize the loss. It is in the cells of your face, your chest, behind the eyes, in the twists of your gut. Muscle sinew bone. It is all of you.

There is a pain you can't think your way out of. You can't talk it away.

he didn't seem to mind being cold and wet or exhausted the way other people did. It wasn't fun, but then life wasn't meant to be that fun. That was the difference, Wynn thought. For Jack, stuff like cold and hunger didn't have a value, good or bad, they just were, and it was best if they didn't last that long; but if they did, as long as one survived them, no harm, no foul. It gave Jack a strength, a temper, that Wynn admired.

if and when we do cross the finishing line, sadly there will not be much time for celebration. We will already be in training for the next one!

People with good memories are liable to be crushed by the weight of their suffering. Only those with bad memories, the fittest to survive, can live on. - Lu Xun

After the flood, Noah lived 350 years.

I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

So Josephís master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the kingís prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,