#Endurance

"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."

"If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience."

"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear."

"So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings."

"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 constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore from any scope."

"She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith."

"Head up, heart open. To better days!"

"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."

"If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song."

"Don't fear the gods,Don't worry about death;What is good is easy to get, andWhat is terrible is easy to endure."

"God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest."

"The sky is not my limit...I am."

"Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, "Image is everything"? And who believed it?"

"Discover a purpose that gives you passion. Develop a plan that makes you persistent. Design a preparation and motivates you to optimize your potentials. Do it because you love it!"

"Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt."

"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."

"No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping."

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.[Remarks Recorded for the Opening of a USIA Transmitter, February 8 1963]"

"[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells."

"We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord."