Quotes about Endurance

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all.

Upon certain subject I am able to hold my tongue and hope that time will right wrongs.

Reality began its tedious crawl back into their reasoning. After all, they were needy and hungry and despised and dispossessed, and sinners the world over were in the driver's seat. How long, merciful Father? How long? A

I have waited toes curled, hat rolled heart and genitals in hand on the back porches of forever in the kitchens and fields of rejections on the cold marble steps of America's White Out-House in the drop seats of buses and the open flies of war

He badder than death yet gives no sweet release.

History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, but if faced With courage, need not be lived again.

Here, root yourselves beside me. I am that Tree planted by the River, Which will not be moved. I, the Rock, I, the River, I, the Tree, I am yours—your passages have been paid. Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need For this bright morning dawning for you. History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, but if faced With courage, need not be lived again.

I keep on dying, Because I love to live.

We turned other cheeks so often our heads seemed to revolve on the end of our necks, like old stop and go signs.

Struggling is okay. Back-stepping is okay. Small bits of progress are not only okay, they're admirable.

There is no situation in life that can't be improved by laugher. Sometimes humor can help us get through situations we couldn't possibly endure without it. Sometimes laughter isn't superfluous; it's essential. Sometimes laughter is the next lesson we need to be learning.

When I'm patient, things usually work out for the best in the end.