180 quotes found
“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”
“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
“I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed....”
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”
“If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.”
“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignitiesI wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the t...”
“A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had...”
“The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.”
“Every great journey stimulates great faith and great joy.”
“So this is my cue of where to leave you. Now it's your story to retell and pass on. Because an idea is only relevant if it's being thought upon. So remember, never surrender.'Cause the unrelenting ...”
“Hope is victory in any hardship.”
“...heroes are sometimes the most ordinary -seeming people. It reminds us that as ordinary as we might be, we can, if we choose, take the harder road, walk forth bravely under the indifferent stars....”
“Greatness is not a term of success, but of endurance.”
“Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.”
“The sky is not my limit...I am.”
“There is joy in every circumstance.”
“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and...”
“It will all work out, Inas. You come from a long line of survivors and strong women. So everything will be fine in the end. And we are always with you in spirit, to guide you and love you.”
“She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith.”
