Quotes About Endurance

It was the heaviest thing I'd ever felt, as if I were being crushed under a thousand trucks. I wanted to black out from the pain, but I breathed deeply. I can do this.

The end of the world made gelato taste a lot better

Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.

I want to build some thing permanent.

Sometimes things don't end okay.

Pain is a part of all lives, mortal and immortal,' said the nymph. 'It is inescapable. We all must navigate this river to get where we want to be.' 'Shouldn't we aim to avoid pain?' Will asked. 'Or at least mitigate it?' Nico shook his head. 'You know it's not that simple.' 'Pain helps us learn,' said Gorgyra. 'It is unfortunate, but we rarely forget the lessons taught to us in moments of pain.

Why did it have to be so hard? Why couldn't there be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?

It wasn't so much a survival plan as a plan for dying in a different place, but we grimly went to work.

Otis! Will you PLEASE stop killing me!

When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.

You can't grow strong without resistance.

Character is both developed and revealed by test and all of life is a test.

When life has meaning, you can bear almost anything; without it, nothing is bearable.

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber. Paul said, "We know that these troubles produce patience. And patience produces character.

The apostle Paul said, "Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope" (Rom. 15:4).

Live your life, Patrick said, dont endure it

When everything else has gone, love still remains," Dr. Hunter said. "Totally," Reggie said. But what good did it do you? None at all.

Now that the war looked as if it was going to last forever Ursula had decided she might as well embark on Proust.

Live your life, Louise," Patrick said, "don't endure it.

Her grandfather was dying of old age, Bertie thought. Worn out. Not cancer or a heart attack or an accident or a catastrophe. Old age seemed like a hard way to go.

And when all else is gone, Art remains.

Time did not heal—it merely rubbed at the wound, slowly and relentlessly.

It was then that Teddy realised that they were not so much warriors as sacrifices for the greater good. Birds thrown against a wall, in the hope that eventually, if there were enough birds, they would break that wall.

It was important to me to hear how Littmus survived after losing everything he loved.