Quotes About Endurance

Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last?

Things fall apart. But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

The strong lean upon death as on a rock.

Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.

The one thing she had learned was that to be tolerated and endured was less dignified than being hated. And it was infinitely more painful.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. —Voltaire

Being a survivor didn't just mean being strong. It meant being lonely. Honestly, truly lonely. Knowing things other people weren't supposed to know. Carrying memories I was desperate to forget and yet still couldn't blank out of my head.

Because what is love if not an exercise in faith. Because what is love if not perseverance. Because what is love if not forgiveness.

We are surrounded by a great cloud of people whose lives tell us what faith means. So let us run the race that is before us and never give up." —Hebrews 12:1a NCV

If love is real, doesn't it then last forever? Why? Life is real, and it doesn't last either

warm, callused hands

Lisa Jackson

All Good Things Comes To He Who Waits

I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.

Death was eternal, but so was life. Darkness was eternal, but so was light. Hate was eternal, but above all, so was love.

Motherhood was not for the weak.

What got you into rowing?" Declan covered

Omnia vincit amor. Love conquers all things. —VIRGIL

Hope isn't a feeling, it's an act.

woman runner in a black jersey and black running tights lay

Bennie tried to keep her face forward

Weak people abound, strong people abide.

Fall down eight times, stand up nine. For me, this saying is less about the dead paving the way for future generations than it is for the women of Jeju. We suffer and suffer and suffer, but we also keep getting up. We keep living. You would not be here if you weren't brave. Now you need to be braver still.

My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.