Quotes About Endurance

When ordinary human beings perform extraordinary acts of generosity, endurance or compassion, we are all made richer by their example. Like the rivers that flow out of the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush, the inspiration they generate washes down to the rest of us. It waters everyone's fields.

And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever.  (Daniel 2:44)

the same law of physics applied to any injury, physical or emotional. If you babied it, it stiffened even more, spreading the pain through you. But if you yielded, if you were willing to endure the white-hot agony of making vulnerable what you sought to protect, you had a shot at releasing it.

Pain is inevitable,'" he says. "'Suffering is optional.

Maybe the only way to get anywhere worth being is to pick up the heaviest thing you can carry. And carry it.

The next forty-eight hours passed tediously and painfully, like a jagged kidney stone.

I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying it's worth doing. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

He was a Tower of flesh and blood, rising above the emotional quagmire through which other men limped, thoughtless and impotent.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional...Let me know when you're ready to start giving it up.

Tony smiled broadly as he pushed past Jade and walked into the entranceway. "There's these two sperm swimming. And they're exhausted. They've been at it forever, seems like hours. Finally, one turns to the other and says, 'Hey! How much longer we got?' Other sperm looks back at him and says. 'Who you kidding? We just got past the esophagus!' " His laughter started as soon as he finished the joke.

The last ounce of what he had to give was the ounce that had saved his life.

Le idee sono spesso surrogate dalle emozioni. Sono più dure a morire, resistono meglio al tempo e tanto meglio quanto più sono irrazionali.

Can we stay faithful and persistent in our fidelity even when things seem not to succeed? I suppose Jesus could have chosen a strategy that worked better (evidence-based outcomes) — that didn't end in the Cross — but he couldn't find a strategy more soaked with fidelity that the one he embraced

Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.

We humans endure the gifts the gods give us, even when we are grieving over what has to be.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

Health... is not so much a state, but a force: the power to resist and overcome threats to one's well-being.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.

it can be hard when you're pedalling furiously below water to stay afloat.

Hope is tricky, slippery; it's a door opening and then slamming in your face. The

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.

Ci sforziamo di conservarci in salute per poter morir bene di radiazioni o di aria avvelenata.