Quotes About Endurance

I suppose she's just dying of living--that's the one infection that strikes us all down, sooner or later.

I pride myself on being able to put up with a lot," Nellie said. "But bagpipers are pretty much my limit.

His feet were swollen to twice their size, besides being cut here and there. Yet they were the only feet he had, and after dozing for an hour in the sun, he got up and hobbled on.

It's not the end of the world, Pea. Just pick up and keep going.

We got all day to break horses.

The bad things that had happened to her had not killed her. They had not even killed the laughter in her.

Among a broken people an unbroken man can only rarely be tolerated—he becomes a too-painful reminder of what the people as a whole had once been.

If you get scalped, don't sit around yowling, either," Gus McCrae said. "People survive scalpings fine if they don't yowl.

losing weight. When we finish eating this horse I

recent experience had shown him that men had to use what hope they could muster, to stay alive.

Jake would have done better to let them hang him," he said. "You know how he suffers when he has to work.

soon he would have to learn to call his depression happiness in order to endure it.

Nothing lasts. You can't do any one thing for two hundred years. A marriage, a career, a hobby—they're good for twenty years, and maybe you go through a phase more than once. I did some experimental medicine. I wrote a big chunk of that documentary on the Trinoc culture that won a—

As we approached the forty-five-day mark, we heard that it was an ancient tradition at that monastery to spend one week in the middle of the ninety days without any sleep at all.

It isn't the day you finally push the boulder up the hill and it stays. (Then what would you do?)

was a phrase my mother inherited from her mother. I had heard Grandma Anglund use it for occasions ranging from a scraped knee (mine) to a family burned out of its farm.

If you don't like wind," Grandfather replied, "you don't like Montana. Because it blows here 360 days a year. Better get used to it.

YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE WORST TO GET TO THE BEST

Sometimes your passion takes work and you shouldn't give up on it just because it isn't easy... [Owen Michaels, as quoted by daughter Bailey]

In one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It's the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don't turn away from the parts of someone we don't want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story. Because

But that's not how you learn you can count on someone. You learn it in the moments when everyone's too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard. You learn it by what they do for you then.

only knows that the important part is to decide to stay. Again and again. And, on the days you can't, to resist deciding anything else.

That is love, baby girl. Working hard when we don't feel like it.

There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on.