Quotes About Endurance

It's only a matter of getting through the next few moments, she thought: take care of the next few moments, and then the next, a few at a time, and after a while it will be easier; you'll get over it, after a while.

Whatever it was, he thought, whatever the strain and the agony, they were worth it, because they had made him reach this day

The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to say that about any hour of one's life.

God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.

The motto over Chaumont's door read, "Se sta bene non se muove," which a later American tenant translated, overly literally, as "If you stand well, stand still.

From strawberries under torture one may extract all sorts of things.

That depends ... If I could hear your voice, I think I might be able to hold out.

If we won't be able to get rid of our "guests," we'll grow used to them and we'll live with them, and if their Creator changes the rules of the game we'll adapt to the new ones, even if for a while we'll kick against the pricks, raise a storm.

A largo plazo, el «Imperio español», el primer imperio mundial en el que nunca se ponía el sol, se convirtió en un mero tópico de la historia mundial, un asunto generalmente asumido debido a su larga duración. Pero una historia de expansión que duró más de mil años y que atañe a una parte muy considerable del mundo no es un asunto banal, sino algo realmente extraordinario, uno de los hitos más grandes de la historia universal.

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus" (1 Thess. 5:16–18 NIV 2011). Give thanks to God in every situation, not for every situation. By loving Jesus in our pain, we allow him into our pain.

Il passato, come lei sa, è come certi torturati. Duro a morire.

Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

and at the end of decades there they are tea splashing clove strong from chipped cups long skirts swaying around ankles giggling from folding chairs in the town square singing along dancing to the didgeridoo a joint passing between their smeared pink lips leaning safe into the only arms they've ever trusted all the way to the goddamn end

If your middle name is Temptation, then mine is Persistence

Times may change; Cynsters never do

Stephanie Rowe

Brandy L Rivers

You are part of an infinite family. The people who have been through terrible things and survived them. If you are reading these words. you WON today. You are here. You are alive. You have options. You can wait out a bad situation. Move on. Fight Back. Get out. Break Up. Call. Ask her (or him) out. Write that book. Write that song. Listen to the music. Take the drive. Take the chance. And Live. Whatever strategy you choose, you WIN.

You are part of an infinite family. The people who have been through terrible things and survived them. If you are reading these words. you WON today. You are here. You are alive. You have options. You an wait out a bad situation. Move on. Fight Back. Get out. Break Up. Call. Ask her (or him) out. Write that book. Write that song. Listen to the music. Take the drive. Take the chance. And Live. Whatever strategy you choose, you WIN.

You are part of an infinite family. The people who have been through terrible things and survived them. If you are reading these words, you WON today, You are here. You are alive. You have options. Whatever strategy you choose, you WIN.

So, if this does end up being my last letter, please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And I believe the same with you. -The perks of being a wallflower

Así que, si esta acaba siendo mi última carta, por favor, piensa que las cosas me irán bien, y que aun cuando no sea así, pronto se arreglarán. Y yo pensaré lo mismo de ti.

But you have to hear the end of the story - you have to know the wolf doesn't win.