Quotes About Endurance

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

El dolor es el alimento esencial del amor; cualquier amor que no se haya nutrido de un poco de dolor puro, muere

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

Woman, in the decadent world around us, captures a man by loving him, and, having got him, sometimes comes to admire him, which is all to the good; and, if Fate is not unkind, may descend no lower than liking and enduring.

Cuando uno cuenta los naufragios es porque no se ahogó.

A fitted shoe is a right good shoe," said the old man, enthusiastically. "I'll fit that shoe to the breadth of a hair." "And you'll be all the night about it," declared the son. "Better a late start than a never ending," said the father.

It ain't every hand that can move as fast as the eye can jump, and faster. But patience climbs the highest hill and—

Max E. Anders

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

Yet both Langlais and 'Bruno' were better suited to enduring a crucifixion than inspiring a resurrection.

Optimism is the elixir of life for the weak.

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

Maxine Rose Schur

When fall came and your leaves fell, they would blow away, but you would remain.

Will you tell me how a man's to live, and face his life, if he can't believe that truth's like a fire, and will burn through and be seen though it takes all the years there are? While I stand up and have breath in my lungs I shall be one flame of that fire; it's all the life I have.

Lecky found that there were two powerful "levers" for changing beliefs and concepts. There are "standard" convictions which are strongly held by nearly everyone. These are (1) the feeling or belief that one is capable of doing his share, holding up his end of the log, exerting a certain amount of independence, and (2) the belief that there is "something" inside you which should not be allowed to suffer indignities.

Jaime, how the

In the country of pain we are each alone.

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.