Quotes About Endurance

You always control what you do; so make this your end.

You may outlive your strength, never your wisdom. –

Things that have worked for a long time are preferable - they are more likely to have reached their ergodic states. At the worst, we don't know how long they'll last.

O tempo é o melhor teste de fragilidade — abrange volumosas doses de desordem

He could sustain the pain if he saw only weekly performance numbers, instead of updates every minute.

It always returns to its initial state.

A wolf is trained to survive.

to make money you must first survive

I'll be patient. I can't even count the number of times I've had to be patient when it comes to you. With every passing year, one's store of patience inevitably grows. It's the only resource that grows. All the others tend to wither.

Le pire n'est pas que l'on se brûle, mais que le feu s'éteint.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

Sometimes that's all you can do. Hope.

To survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it.

Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the outward semblance is the same--crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more. The latter is perhaps the truest theory.

To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame.

for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.

His error lay in supposing that this age, more than any past or future one, is destined to see the tattered garments of Antiquity exchanged for a new suit, instead of gradually renewing themselves by patchwork; in applying his own little life span as the measure of an interminable acheivement; and, more than all, in fancying that it mattered anything to the great end in view whether he himself should contend for it or against it.

In cases of distasteful occupation, the second day is generally worse than the first; we return to the rack with all the soreness of the preceding torture in our limbs.

tomorrow would bring its own trial with it so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial and yet the very same that was so now so unutterably grievous to be

The days of the far off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up and bear along with her but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame

Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pain that rankles after it.