Quotes About Endurance

The things that remain matter. Because of them, I can render a plausible life.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

No one survives life.

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

Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I've tried.

Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don't use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same as success—an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit.

Every day contains small, yet significant, battles for the Lord. Fix your eyes on the finish line, persevere, give your all to the Master, and know that He who has called you will be faithful to do the work (1 Thess. 5:24). When we stand before the Lord one day, we will not regret any sacrifice we have made for Him. We will only wish we had given Him more!

She died by her own hand, but she was as brave as a soldier before a firing squad. She faced it. Whatever it was, she had been facing it for a long time.

I thought I'd die of it, but I didn't die. You can learn to eat violence. There is pleasure in not resisting. I dedicated myself to teaching my bully just how much a person can consume.

The will can achieve some things, but one must exhaust one's will in order to learn which things they are.

What fails to kill me will kill me eventually.

People who live that long aren't impulsive. They protect a little ember and say just a little bit too cold all their lives.

I will be the answer at the end of the line. I will be there for you. Why take the time? In the burning of uncertainty, I will be your solid ground. I, I will hold the balance if you can't look down. If it takes my whole life, I won't break. I won't bend. It will all be worth it, worth it in the end because I can only tell you what I know, that I need you in my life. When the stars have all gone out you'll still be burning so bright.

Hold on...Hold on to yourself. This is going to hurt like hell.

I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.

If he was wood, he was a flail, and I was grain on the threshing floor. I was a thousand grains, my thoughts blown like chaff. All that was left was the taste of salt.

There's not supposed to be anything left after the end of the world, even if the end of the world doesn't quite happen.

Titan Clocks were made with iron and gold and human bone; they did not break, and they did not fail.

Rudolph." Tab

She hadn't lived in the moment because she hadn't liked the moment she was living in. She'd done her best to be strong and keep smiling, but it had been the toughest year of her life. Grief, she thought, was a horrible companion.

But life goes on, right? You keep walking, even when your feet are bleeding and you can hardly stand upright

You keep walking, even when your feet are bleeding and you can hardly stand upright.