Quotes about Endurance

Shall we do without hope? Some days there will be none. But now to the dry and dead woods floor they come again, the first flowers of the year, the assembly of the faithful, the beautiful, wholly given to being.

What can't be helped must be endured.

Whatever happens, those who have learned to love one another have made their way to the lasting world and will not leave, whatever happens.

But there, in her diminishment, she seemed to resemble only herself, as if suffering finally had singled her out.

We must take love to the limit of time, because time can not limit it. A life cannot limit it. Maybe to have it in your heart all your life in this world, even while it fails here, is to succeed. Maybe that is enough.

To have the two of them there, at opposite corners of the table, with their long endurance in their faces, and their present affection and pleasure, was a blessing of another kind.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of man's puny, inexhaustible, voice still talking! ...not simply because man alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because man has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice and endurance.

odor in his clothes and beard and flesh too which I believed was the smell of powder and glory, the elected victorious but know better now: know now to have been only the will to endure, a sardonic and even humorous declining of self-delusion which is not even kin to that optimism which believes that that which is about to happen to us can

The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.

I love, I will accept no substitute; ...; if happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.