Quotes About Endurance

When you have lost hope, you lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

its been a long night aren't they all?

Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.

We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of another heart's beat and giving enduring, solid proof of our own.

So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.

Everything always gets crazy at the end. You just have to keep going, regardless of how awful it gets. So that's what I do.

Everyone had a forever.

It doesn't matter whether you're the one having to douse a flame or helplessly watching it sputter. Either way, it goes out eventually.

Algunas cosas no duran para siempre, pero otras sí. Como una buena canción, o un buen libro, o un buen recuerdo que se puede recuperar y contemplar en los malos momentos..

It's been a long night. Aren't they all.

It's been a long night. Aren't they all.

Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise. For some people, it's love. Others, money or alcohol. Mine was even worse: calculus.

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, to how it holds you to a place.

It was like I'd waited all my life to have something like this, and I knew even then, at the start, that it would be hard, so hard to lose. The big stuff always is.

It's like forever, always changing.

As I crossed the lobby to the boardwalk, all I could think was that regardless of the performance I'd just witnessed, it didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot. (302)

That racing of my heart, the flushing of my face I was feeling: it was what happened when you got hurt, true, but also when you got back up and went on.

When's something difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder- if not impossible- to lose.

You would be surprised by the strength of a desperate man.

I love you as much as the ocean kisses the shore no matter how many times it is sent away.

There's nothing more beautiful then the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

I didn't tell him that even after a crash, a key still fits the ignition. There just isn't anything left to drive.

If he leaves you with a car alarm heart, you learn to sing along.

Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent.