Quotes about Endurance

Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in a heavy wind because they are not well anchored.

I'm a man who has failed in many areas, but the one thing I don't want to do is quit.

As a heterosexual ballet dancer, you develop a thick skin.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

On the other side of pain, there is still love.

We must pray when prayer seems dry as dust; we must write when we are physically tired, when our hearts are heavy, when our bodies are in pain.

A life form which can't adapt doesn't last very long.

On a planet that has given in... you must prepare to be very strong.

Joy is what has made the pain bearable and, in the end, creative rather than destructive.

The answer has something to do with love. Love that has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark acceptance before it can come out into the far light of the sun.

we do not have to understand God's ways, or the suffering and brokenness and pain that sooner or later come to us all. But we do have to know in the very depths of our being that the ultimate end of the story, no matter how many aeons it takes, is going to be all right.

Many waters cannot quench love,' she whispered. 'Neither can floods drown it.