Quotes About Endurance

Despair made the deserts and hope shaped the oasis.

If you believe some of the old stories, earth natives have been around in one form or another since the beginning of the world. They were the top predators then and they're the top predators now because they change as the world changes, absorbing qualities from new species of predators without losing the essence of what they are.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

And time brings down what is both strong and tall.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.

Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.

I am someone who did not die when I should have died.

Would this day never end? His eye traveled to the clock at the front of the room and he fell into the pool of his favorite question.

MEGARA Wait for worse? You love the light so much? AMPHITRYON I do, I love its hopes.

No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

I'm someone who didn't die when I should have died.

And he did. Billy knew that, even if he did not love Greg, even if he had other guys, and other plans for the long term, he would still do this thing. He would help Greg in his last months, or years. And he might resent it but he would not regret it: because this was the thing that was given him to do.

Do not sigh, do not weep!

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains

Because paper has more patience than people.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. ROMANS 8:18

Wounding, at best, only temporarily releases pain.

Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy. MRS. CHARLES E. COWMAN, Streams in the Desert (January 18)

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 1 PETER 1:6