Quotes About Endurance

I was looking out at cliffs and the sea, all sluiced in delicate pinks and yellows and greens and blues, as if the sun were imparting to the sleeping rock and water dreams of their youth, dreams of the rock's birth in the earth's molten core, the water's ecstatic purity before it was sullied by life—as if the play of soft colors were the sun's lullaby to the cliffs and the sea, of endurance and transformation.

D)ying is hard, but living is harder still. —Vincent van Gogh

How many times can your heat mend until it's broken beyond repair? --Deborah King

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

It was true that I had no idea how to endure being alive and everything that comes with it.

The phantom of femininity is an illusion, a delusion, a societal hallucination. She is a very tricky character to play and it is a role (sacrifice, endurance, cheerful suffering) that has made some women go mad.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely.

The writing life is mostly about stamina. To get to the finishing line requires the writing to become more interesting than everyday life...

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

But you have to be courageous, my friend, and unafraid of pain. For only through pain will the beauty of the world be revealed.'' He

Women are like tea bags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water. — ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

La vida no cuece a fuego lento simplemente porque tú bajes la llama.

You had to laugh, if you wanted to survive.

Life does go on.

never to pray for patience without being prepared for war.

But now I know, while beauty lives So long will live my power to grieve.

We don't like writing. We like having written.

But Allison always finished what she started. It was both a saving grace and a tragic flaw.

During the first night of flight, twelve infants and several old people froze to death. The next night, the men killed some of the ponies, disemboweled them, and thrust small children inside to keep them from freezing. The old people put their hands and feet in beside the children. For three days they tramped across the frozen snow, their bare feet leaving a trail of blood, and then they reached Crazy Horse's camp.

Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains — Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West . (Holt Paperbacks; 30th Anniversary edition January 23, 2001) Originally published 1970.

Nothing lives long Only the earth and the mountains.

Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains

The old men say the earth only endures. You spoke truly. You are right.

We're going to be there for every inning. Not just the peaks and valleys.