Quotes About Endurance

Hope is cruel, and has no conscience.

Keep on. The work of the world is always done by creatures too tired to do it.

Priam and Achilles meet in the very twilight of their lives. Their extinction is certain and there will be no reward for behaving well, and yet, in the face of implacable fate and an indifferent universe, they mutually assert the highest ideals of their humanity.

Caroline B. Cooney

Leaving the Connecticut River March 8, 1704 Temperature 40 degrees They marched until the captives could not take another step. Eben dragged Eliza half the way and Sarah dragged her the rest. Mercy and Joseph took turns hauling Ruth. That night they slept like rocks, and in the morning Mercy understood why bears spent the whole winter sleeping. It sounded good to Mercy.

Til the Dawn Breaks and Shadows Flee Away.

friends. She made her spiritual life a priority, and each morning she and her son would visualize their lives as happy and complete—an action that tapped into the spiritual energies associated with the third chakra: endurance, stamina, and self-respect.

and someday have someone to hold my hand when I'm taking my last breath and tell me to walk slowly because it won't be long until they're following me. I want all

Living isn't for wimps no matter what age you are

Tears on the outside fall to the ground and are slowly washed away. Tears on the inside fall on the soul. And stay and stay and stay.

This forgiving business is not a sprint but a marathon, chère.

That's what Josie wanted. A love so strong that death couldn't break its bonds.

What in the devil is a forever thing?" he asked. "It's a thing that lasts way past attraction and saying the vows in front of a preacher. It's something that endures the fights as well as the good times right up until the last breath is drawn. That's a forever thing

But the screws had been there since the sixth day of creation and wouldn't budge. I leaned into

Drag your feet a little. Heaven is timeless

Nancy fell so hard that the breath was knocked from her, but she struggled to her feet.

It means this isn't over.

Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

stretch, weeding out his own ranks. Our attempt at an end

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

The point is that we all caught. And we try in one way or another to widen ourself free. For instance, me and Ludie. When I was with Ludie, I didn't feel so caught. But then Ludie died. We go around trying one thing or another, but we caught anyhow.

about them always.

If you are tired, keep going; if you are scared, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going.