Quotes About Endurance

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

No bounce, no play.

I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life...It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't put an end to me as a person. I think...it gave me a basis for comparison, finding out you could still exist inside the pain, in SPITE of the pain.

In the end, we wear out our worries.

Long days and pleasant nights

You could get used to anything if you had to.

You may wonder about long-term solutions. I assure you, there are none. All wounds are mortal. Take what's given. You sometimes get a little slack in the rope but the rope always has an end. So what? Bless the slack and don't waste your breath cursing the drop. A grateful heart knows that in the end we all swing.

the only way to go on is to go on. To say I can do this even when you know you can't.

Sometimes you just have to do what you can and try to live with it.

before victory comes temptation. And the greater the victory to win, the greater the temptation to withstand.

That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

Just go on dancing with me like this forever, Garraty. And I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside dowm from the moon.

Mind over matter in any form is a terrific drain on the body's resources.

If," Roland said. "An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.

He just kept picking them up and laying them down.

You play the game to the end. That's how it works; play to the end.

It was life, you were stuck with it, and all you could do was live it.

What would his father do then? Go on, Johnny supposed. People had a way of doing that, just going on, pushing through with no particular drama, no big drumrolls.

When it started not to hurt, it started not to matter.

Think what you will, blackbird, for I'll be here long after thee's gone they course and died thy death.

Very well. I am now a man with now food, with two less fingers and one less toe than I was born with; I am a gunslinger with shells which may not fire; I am sickening from a monster's bite and have no medicine; I have a day's water if I'm lucky; I may be able to walk perhaps a dozen miles if I press myself to the last extremity. I am, in short, a man on the edge of everything.

The road to recovery led through the Land of Pain, that was all.

It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. You wouldn't think it could be so, but—as the oldtimers used to say—the world's tilted, and there's an end to it.

two bitches livin on a little chunk of rock...