Quotes About Endurance

don't have fights. I have wars.' To Harkness

Samuel Johnson: "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Keep the fire in the kitchen to see if it outlasts the storms and rain outside.

Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success." —Ernest Shackleton, advertisement for crew for 1914 Antarctic expedition

Saw I was evidently throwing myself into all hardships and distressed in my present undertaking. I thought it would be less difficult to lie down in the grave; but yet I chose to go rather than stay.

When people remember the past, they don't only talk about happiness. It is often the ordeals that seem most significant. People shoot for happiness but feel formed through suffering.

His moral task was to suffer well, to be worthy of his sufferings. He could not control how much he suffered, but he could control his inner response to his sufferings.

Rats—humans too—continue to push on the bar in the cage of our existence looking for a reward past the point of reason because, every once in a while, something unthinkably delicious comes down the tube.

at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.

Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

at least to wait until your failing health qualifies you for an enhanced annuity.

If We Quit Trying, It All Goes in the Sh-tter.

I went without when I had no money, probably, 'cause of that...

The poet Mary Rose O'Reilly describes the process aptly: "People all over the world are doing very hard things—turning the other cheek, giving all they have to the poor, eating potatoes without salt—because some confused and yawning student took a note.

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

the trail, at infrequent posts, the weary Saints would

Lili could remember that, the feeling of biting down on one's thoughts and feelings and storing them up for no one.

You will loose everything" "I already have.

When you play Bobby, it is not a question of whether you win or lose. It is a question of whether you survive. —BORIS SPASSKY

How long does a building stand before it falls? How long does a contract last? How long will brothers share the inheritance before they quarrel? How long does hatred, for that matter, last? Time after time the river has risen and flooded. The insect leaves the cocoon to live but a minute. How long is the eye able to look at the sun? From the very beginning nothing at all has lasted.

On s'habitue plus facilement que prévue à ce qui paraît insoutenable.

Acostumbramos con mayor facilidad de lo previsto a lo que parece insoportable

De qué forma tan paulatina e insidiosa se van acomodando solapadamente las agonías.