enduring Quotes

“...people hold onto life, no matter how miserable a situation they may be in, because they don’t know any other way of thinking or acting, also because they have the illusion that there is a chance they may find happiness someday or they may somehow come into money.”

“Sometimes the trick to getting the best of a situation was just to wait.”

“We can endure all kinds of pain. It’s shame that eats men whole.”

“Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like the taste.”

“Every pound of granite, every begonia blossom, Charlie thought, was proof of the enduring human need to be remembered.”

“‘The cowards never started,’ he’d tell me, ‘and the weak died along the way - that leaves us.’”

“Core values are essential for enduring greatness, but it doesn’t seem to matter what those core values are.”

“First, see clearly. Next, act correctly. Finally, endure and accept the world as it is.”

“I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud.”

“The past rests, breathing faintly in the darkness. It no longer holds me as it used to; now I must reach back to touch it. It is night and I am alone and there is still time, a moment more. I am standing on a long black stage, with a circle of light on me, which is my love for you, enduring.”

“Used to think...God was only good for helping people...stand what they had to.”

“You’ll just have to endure some things and give up other...everything must be paid for.”

“He suffer and it don’t seem to put him back at all.”

“He knew them like I knew them. Passed to him. Passed them to his little brother. Passed to my older brother. Passed to me. The Rules have always ruled. Past present future forever.”

“Enduring Odysseus, he was, and the name was stitched into his skin. Whoever saw him must salute and say: There is a man who has seen the world. There is a captain with stories to tell.”

“No one will ever fully be able to understand the internal battles you had to endure just to heal, just to grow, just to make it here today. Be proud of the way you fought to save yourself. Be proud of the way you survived.”

“But love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning; Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.”

“It’s rather hard when you have a splendid house yourself that the chief view from your windows should be that of your enemy’s dingy fortress, but this had to be endured...”