Quotes About Endurance

What does not kill you will make you stronger.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find something worth suffering for.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

Life is a series of hits and misses and tests that never end, but the reward is when you win Heaven just because you gave it your best try.

I an not tired, but the night is coming.

Overdraw me Lord, and who cares if I break!

The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.

Good god how much I have suffered, but serenely, because I understood that what I endured was nothing, just a caress compared to the world's boundless misfortune.

You cannot understand how much patience I need in order not to lose my patience, so that I can withstand all this misfortune all by myself. Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galatea Kazantzaki wr. c. June 1922

Conquer the last, the greatest temptation of all: Hope. This is the third duty.

Sa??r?n, istediÄŸin kadar kap?s?n? çal.

Und das Licht hat geschworen, nicht aufzugeben, aber es weiß, das es keine Rettung gibt, es wird sich nicht ergeben, es erlischt.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

Fill this cup to that love that never changes, never! Fill this cup to the love that goes on living forever! To the love that has been purified by earthly woes and at last with everlasting bliss... divinely glows!

In the hour of adversity be not without hope, for crystal rain falls from black clouds.

repelente de subo

Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, swelling here, shrinking there, like some low but indestructible form of life. Inland, the prospect alters.

Amnesia constrains ambition and inoculates against patience. Still

I mention all this so that you will understand that is part of the process: once you've found out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding it out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.

Don't give up on your own happy-evers.

Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.

Love can kick your ass.

It doesn't matter how long it takes. She thought of him, of them, the lifetime already shared. It's how long it lasts.

Love shouldn't be hard." "There I think you're wrong. I think it should be the hardest thing there is, then it's not so easily given away, or taken away, or just lost.