Quotes About Endurance

The mystery of life is not salved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.

What words are there to tell how long a night can be?

I dalje ništa novo. Ali to ne može trajati zauvijek.

I hope to see ya there, muscles!

Nothing built by man has ever improved on the ancient classic fingertip pushup

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." Mother Teresa

Roman poet Ovid wrote: "Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.

Patience is drawing on underlying forces; it is powerfully positive, though to a natural view it looks like just sitting it out. How would I persist against positive eroding forces if I were not drawing on invisible forces? And patience has a positive tonic effect on others; because of the presence of the patient person, they revive and go on, as if he were the gyroscope of the ship providing a stable ground. But the patient person himself does not enjoy it.

It's not when people notice you're there that they pay attention; it's when they notice you're still there.

pain is fact; suffering is optional

L" energy does not seem to diminish over time. While all of the other known forms of energy seem to follow most of the Newtonian laws of physics, including burning things up and burning itself out over time, "L" energy seems to be a creative, connecting energy. Instead of burning things out, it seems to hold them together. It seems to be one of the strongest integrating, connecting forces in the universe.

Just think of AIDS as . . . the guest that won't leave. The one we all hate. But you have to remember. Hey--it's still our party.

Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.

To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

I often had the feeling that it was the old immemorial Confucian family that had kept China orderly. Mao had attacked the family-the Cultural Revolution was intentionally an assault on the family system, when children were told to rat on their bourgeois parents. But that had faltered and failed. The family had endured

the predominating characteristic of the Chinese was stoicism

on my trip whenever I felt obstructed or low, I thought of this valiant woman, and moved on.

cling to—they have little else to cling to.

The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.

She did not wish to die, but if torture was the price she had to pay to keep her lover's love, then she only hoped he was pleased that she had endured it. All soft and silent she waited, waited for them to bring her back to him. None

Ella no deseaba morir, pero si el suplicio era el precio que tenía que pagar para que su amante siguiera amándola, no pedía más que él estuviera contento de que ella lo hubiera sufrido y, sumisa y callada, esperaba que la condujeran a él.

She did not wish to die, but if torture was the price she had to pay to keep her lover's love, then she only hoped he was pleased that she had endured it. All soft and silent she waited, waited for them to bring her back to him.

Que son cinco minutos de agonia, a cambio de una eternidad en silencio.