Quotes About Endurance

Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you're waiting.

Eso duró toda la vida. No fue un año ni dos. Fue toda la vida.

Uno ha creído a veces, en medio de este camino sin orillas, que nada habría después; que no se podría encontrar nada al otro lado, al final de esta llanura rajada de grietas y de arroyos secos. Pero sí, hay algo. Hay un pueblo. Se oye que ladran los perros y se siente en el aire el olor del humo, y se saborea ese olor de la gente como si fuera una esperanza.

Hay esperanza, en suma. Hay esperanza para nosotros, contra nuestro pesar.

Tendré que oírlo, hasta que se le muera su voz.

No matter how things look, you must keep going. How do you do that? By following your heart.

Judith Fitzgerald

Not even in my weakest moment have I considered letting you go.

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery.

Well then, I'll just have to suffer

Through all kinds of weather What if the sky should fall Just as long as we're together It doesn't matter at all

It's having hope which requires having guts. So wear your heart on your sleeve and if it bleeds, let it, so long as it still beats.

This was a dog that had lived a nightmare of a life and still never whined or howled or cried out of pain or discomfort. You don't make a sound, I learned from Wonder, when no one ever comes to see how you're doing.

I believed that my parents and grandparents stayed married for fifty years because of the simple yet undeniable fact that they worked like hell at it every single day, not because they bought each other a commemorative teacup every year.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.

Somehow I should have been able to say how strong and resilient you were, what a patient and abiding and bonding force, the softness that proved in the long run stronger than what it seemed to yield to...You are at once a lasting presence and an unhealed wound.

There is no way to step off the tread mill. It is all treadmill.

It would be easy to call it quits. Occasionally I have these moments, not often. There is nothing to do but sit still until they pass. Tantrums and passions I don't need, endurance is what I need. I have found that it is even possible to take a certain pleasure out of submission to necessity. That have I borne, this can I bear also.

We're all tougher than we think we are. We're fixed so that almost anything heals.

She will burn bright until she goes out; she will go on standing on tiptoe till she falls.

She will burn bright until she goes out; she will go on standing on tiptoe until she falls.

What little strength he had left flowed out of him and was soaked up; his bones and veins and skin held nothing but tiredness and pain.

I can stand anything I have to stand!