Quotes About Endurance

What is sacralized or made holy is not suffering but the facing, endurance of suffering, the resisting it with hope and life.

As one widow put it to me, "Strength doesn't mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.

Mi papá te hubiera puesto a hacer cien lagartijas por todo este gimoteo. -No si antes me rompiera mis malditas costillas, amiga. Me siento como Rihanna tras una noche de pasión.

It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.

Great souls suffer in silence. JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER During

The key to building distance in the long run is the ability of the mind to lie to the body — and be convincing.

The marathon lane is largely empty, mostly silent: the road of the damned rather than the saved.

Pheidippides ran twenty-six miles from Marathon to Athens with news of the Greek victory.

A writer keeps going despite what awaits the effort, the detours, ruts, curves & unexpected roadblocks. The road is clear. Drive on

A writer's two greatest tools are imagination and perseverance.

A writer's work is never done, the meter is never off.

Mark Rubinstein

suffering borne by two is nearly joy.

That's not gon fu." We stared at each other for a long time, then he raised on eybrow. "I could fix it, if you wanted." I must have nodded, because then he asked me if I could chi ku, eat bitter, the Chinese expression meaning to endure suffering. Lying, I said yes. Then he asked me if I was afraid of pain. Lying again, I said no. "You want?" he asked. "I want, " I said, and became his student.

Yes, we shall win in the end; but the road will be long and red with monstrous martyrdoms." Oscar Wilde, 1897, on his release from Reading Gaol

The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.

So many silent battles are waged By those who sit alone and wait, and by those who delay.

The Hill I have come this far on my own legs, missing the bus, missing taxis, climbing always. One foot in front of the other, that is the way I do it. It does not bother me, the way the hill goes on. Grass beside the road, a tree rattling its black leaves. So what? The longer I walk, the farther I am from everything. One foot in front of the other. The hours pass. One foot in front of the other. The years pass. The colors of arrival fade. That is the way I do it.

And if it happens that you cannot go on or turn back and you find yourself where you will be at the end, tell yourself in that final flowing of cold through your limbs that you love what you are. — Mark Strand, from "Lines for Winter," Selected Poems . (Knopf September 26, 1990)

How many times should you try before you give up? If you want something bad enough, you will keep trying until. Until what? Until you succeed.

Some loves never die.

The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can't fathom.

in life is to endure, to be kind, and to constantly put the past behind us and not dwell too much on the future. If you must look back, try to find the beauty and the benefit in every cruelty done to you.

Forgive an old man his memories," Pino said. "Some loves never die.