Quotes About Endurance

Hope had been that thing with burnt feathers buried in her soul, but now it was waking up, stretching, beating fresh wings in the ashes.

and thought how her chest felt like a gutted walnut shell, and wondered if that sensation might last forever.

To keep telling my story seems like the last bit of living I can still do. I feel like a dragonfly clinging to a grass blade in a windstorm, but I can't just let go. I can't. I stare at the candle, how the flame shivers and bends when the wick is too long. The light is small and unsteady, but unless it's snuffed out, it'll keep burning for as long as the wick runs.

He could do this. He'd survived boot camp. He'd survived combat and the harsh weather of Afghanistan. He could survive broccoli. Probably.

even when she wasn't

Patience comes to those who wait.

Waiting was sometimes the most proactive thing a person could do.

Sharon Gillenwater

Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain.

We live in the in-between space—between when all that was right went wrong, and when all that is wrong will be made right again.

A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

Never quit, we are always 3 feet from Gold.

Long as you remember, ain't nothin' really gone.

Sometimes I just get tired of bowin' down and givin' up, you know?" It

You know how athletes get ready for the Olympics? They swim early in the morning and late at night. They run around the track for hours and hours without a crowd to cheer them on.

I guess that's how people go on, without knowing how.

Have faith, old heart. What is living, anyway, but dying.

and there is nothing to be done for it, it can only be known and borne, it cannot be turned into anything fruitful or sweet, but just be faced, as what it was

Dread and sorrow reaching, in time, into every reach

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.

Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.

And if I should leave you, for any reason," he added, tightening his grip as she struggled to free her hand, "I will return to you. That is as certain as the sun rising tomorrow morning and the thunderbolt falling tomorrow night. That is as sure as the god's existence. I will come back to you, or I will find you - over and over again, as often as we are parted, until the end of the world itself.

I've seen him become sober so many times and do so well, and struggle to be a right guy. And fall apart again. But to what end?

Bombs and bullets alone cannot destroy India, because Indians will pick their way through the rubble and carry on as they have done throughout history.