Quotes About Endurance

Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift from the sea.

It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity, faith and security.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

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silently against Michelle's robust shoulder, until I learned that tears were of no value. There was no escape for us from the dank walls and rigid

She taught me,' said Ta-thea, 'that if you do not have couragem all other virtues may be lost, because you cannot keep even love if you are not prepared to fight for it, to endure the hurt it brings, and hold on, no matter the cost.

But to lose is part of our human experience, as God intended it to be. The fact that it hurts to the very limit of our ability to bear is the whole point.

There are many kinds of misery, and many kinds of fortitude, and you should not allow your awareness of one to build to the value of another.

there was something extraordinarily sweet and comfortable about a friend who knows you and accepts you at your worst, your most bitter, or defeated, who sees your emotional ugliness naked and is not afraid to call it by name, and yet does not turn from you or allow you to cease to struggle, who wills your survival as precious.

I have seen my share of cruelty, injustice, and grief. I do not need to be treated like some flower that will bruise if you touch it.

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.

Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun

You have to suffer through this emptiness...and find what impels you to continue.

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

You are too strong for this rain and too strong for this sorrow.

Pain. Unspeakable pain. It didn't matter who in this world or any other was staring at me, watching me, seeking to share this moment or merely shuddering as I experienced it. Just didn't matter. Because in pain like this one is always alone.

Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

You have to pass away from what failed you into what can sustain you. Otherwise - there is no hope.

Ah, what broken creatures we are, and how we endure.

must somehow move to my restoration. I could not sink back in agony for that would breed but more agony. I must go on.

Please, Master, I can't endure this," I said. "Then, how will you endure eternity, my child? Don't you know that's what I mean to give you? What power under God is there that can break me?

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness;