Quotes About Endurance

You have to leave your heart to get on with it. It's rather like breathing. We don't have to remind ourselves to breathe.

People stuck by others for years and years, in the face of all odds, and it should be relief, not disbelief, that one felt on witnessing it.

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

When there is nothing you can do to stop the march of adverse events, then the best thing, she felt, was to get on with life and not to worry.

There are many sick vehicles here, and I cannot leave them. They are not dying, said Mma Makutsi firmly. They will still be here when we come back.

Alexander McCall Smith

He felt weary. Life was a battle against wear; the wear of machinery and the wear of the soul. Oil. Grease. Wear.

Elle avait ainsi gardé cette éventualité à l'esprit, enfouie parmi ces autres fragments d'espoir avec lesquels nous traversons la vie, sans y penser beaucoup, mais résolus à ne pas les laisser tout à fait s'évanouir.

and took us to the end of long, dark tunnels, which were filled with green rock and dust. My job was to load rock after it had been blasted, and I did this for seven hours a day. I grew

Alexander McCall Smith

La, sotto i giorni nubilosi e brevi, Nasce una gente a cui 'l morir non dole. Petr.64

Within my song, safe from the worm, my spirit will survive

Pray on, then, all you postponed and disappointed and impoverished people of God; pray on and faint not. Pray on: for the prayer is far better than the answer.

How much strength must one people have? And for how long must they have it?

Another marathon was on; a rerun surely, there couldn't be this many marathons going on all the time anywhere on Earth.

A St. Louis oncology nurse quoted Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl to States News Service in 2012: " 'What is to give light must endure burning.' I think people who care for others understand. Caregiving is painful.

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

remember that what has once been done may be done again.

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever.

The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

God is always the last resource.

does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.