"Life was not longer something to endure, but to live. "
— Hubert Selby Jr. (Requiem for a Dream)

"To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping."
— Chinese Proverb

"I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit."
— Dick Francis (Whip Hand)

"You failed. You think I care about that I do understand. You wanna be really great Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you re still smiling. "
— Kristen Dunst

"If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience."
— Sheri L. Dew (If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn't Be Hard: And Other Reassuring Truths)

"But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day."
— Dick Francis (Whip Hand)

"The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures."
— Sara Paretsky (Bleeding Kansas)

"You failed. You think I care about that? I do understand. You wanna be really great. Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still smiling. "
— Kristen Dunst Elizabethtown

"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. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform."
— Stephen Fry (Moab Is My Washpot)

"Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good."
— Zainab Salbi