Quotes About Endurance

As others grown more intelligent under stress, I grow heavy, as if I were an animal on a chain.

Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this.' " Mykolos

God is there to give us strength for every hill we have to climb.

It's the living who are left to suffer. A hard truth, but that's the way it is.

Dogs have always provided a special kind of love and companionship that I experience only some of the time with humans. They have a strong sense of character and live the way we ought to: dogs never compare you to your sister nor make judgments in her favor. Dogs never know what is coming and so live purely in the moment, savoring the good, doing their best to endure the bad--and they offer up this miraculous example so that we can learn from it.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.

How much am I willing to endure in order to remember? Do I truly want to be empowered by memory or language?

God, I love you, he said, and laid his head on her belly, his arms locked around her hips. Madelyn slid her fingers into his hair. It took you long enough, she said gently. What I lack in quickness, I make up in staying power. Meaning? That I'll still be telling you that fifty years from now. He paused and turned his head to kiss her stomach.

It takes strength to participate in life.

hurting was better than dying.

Sudden, hell. I've been hard for two months.

No matter how much damage he had done, he hadn't won.

Linda Lael Miller

Alas, the question was too big for a man in the process of dying, alone and far from home.

When the moon strays off into space and the last star winks out forever, I will still love you

One step at a time, one day at a time, just today, just this day to get through.

One step at a time . . . one day at a time. Just today—just this day to get through . . .

Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope. Salva Dut

Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting.

They patched the bag again. The drilling went on.

To young people, I would like to say: Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope. Salva Dut Rochester, New York 2010

Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope. Salva Dut Rochester, New York

There was always plenty of fruit that clung stubbornly to the seed. He would nibble and suck at it to get every last shred, making it last for hours.

Marial and Uncle were no longer by his side, and they never would be again, but Salva knew that both of them would have wanted him to survive, to finish the trip and reach the Itang refugee camp safely. It was almost as if they had left their strength with him, to help him on his journey.