Quotes About Endurance

I think you need to know that your hope hasn't been in vain. That there will be a happy ending. That when the show is over, you will hear applause.

Suffering can either destroy you or it can save you. Because without suffering, we don't need more; we have enough. But when we suffer, we can't help but reach out.

Fear is worse than pain, I think. Pain is centralized, identifiable, and wanes as you wait. Fear is a heaviness you can't wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't.

Change always happens... We adjust to it. Somehow we figure out a way. We straighten what we can or learn how to like something a little crooked. That's how it is. Something breaks, you fix it as best you can. There's always a way to make something better, even if it means sweeping up the broken pieces and starting all over. That's how we keep moving, keep breathing, keep opening our eyes every morning, even when the only thing we know for sure is that we're still alive.

It was only after time had passed that a person was able to see whether she might have been able to bear the load she was sure had been too heavy.

I realized then how much alike we were. Both of us looked backwards to a beloved time that was lost to us, a time where everything had been beautiful. Both of us looked forward to some time and place that would be better. And both of us were here, now, in a grim, unhappy time where little was as we wanted it to be. We lived in our memories and in our hopes, enduring the present because we had no other choice, and because we loved the people who lived here with us.

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

I've become passive. I don't invent, I don't yearn. I manage, I cope.

I am tired. I would like to be a mountain, a tree, a stone.

the war goes on—an ache in the bones, an ache in the gut, an ache in the heart.

Dearest - I'm sorry not to have written. Life is tough, and it's hard to talk while one is gritting one's teeth...

For two thousand years, among Christians and Jews, it has been spiritually fashionable to be in pain.

it is not love which we overvalue, but suffering—more precisely, the spiritual merits and benefits of suffering.

Sisyphus, I. I cling to my rock, you don't have to chain me. Stand back! I roll it up—up, up. And … down we go. I knew that would happen. See, I'm on my feet again. See, I'm starting to roll it up again. Don't try to talk me out of it. Nothing, nothing could tear me away from this rock.

This girl, when she became a woman, would risk all, sacrifice all, overlook and endure all in order to be one with her beloved.

Page 357 - if the mountain was smooth, you couldn't climb it.

We will find another way, she repeated. We're like orbiting pearls. No matter what pulls us apart, we'll always find our way back to each other.

provide energy on the days the sun could not. The batteries were old

She loved him so much that it hurt. Maybe that was how love worked. If you could handle the pain, you'd find the sweetness.

When your pain is bad, and your strength is gone, you might start thinking of leaving." "Leaving. I like that.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds." —Aristotle Onassis

For the survivors

The child endures all things." —Maria Montessori

Winston Churchill once said, "When you are going through hell, keep going.