Quotes About Endurance

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Suviše je jaka i isklju?iva, kao i ja, samo ne žuri da to pokaže, tiha je i uporna, uvjerena da ?e biti onako kako ona ho?e. Njen otpor nije pobuna ve? strpljivo zauzimanje položaja, ne za trenutak, ve? za dugo vrijeme.

We should kill our pasts with each passing day. Blot them out, so that they will not hurt. Each present day could thus be endured more easily, it would not be measured against what no longer exists. As things are, spectres mix with our lives so that there is neither pure memory nor pure life. They clash and try to strangle each other, continually

Pri?a o životu: ako se tužimo kako nam je teško, klonu?emo; ako kažemo životu: izdrža?u, ne?es me slomiti, muka postaje lakša.

Ljudi ne vole zlo, pa ipak ga podnose. Kad bi zlo i surovost bili dovoljno pametni da znaju granicu do koje smiju da se name?u, da ne izazivaju ogor?enje, dugo bi trajali. Ružna je to misao, ali izgleda da je ta?na, ljudi se teško pokre?u dok mogu da žive podnošljivo, tek kad im postane suviše teško, kad po?nu da tonu, po?inju da misle i da se otimaju.

Ljubav je ipak ja?a od svega.

If a sparrow cannot swallow the mouthful of the Anka-bird, it will still eat as much as it can. You cannot scoop up the whole sea with a jug, but whatever you scoop up is also the sea.

Uvijek ima vremena za ono sto je neprijatno.

Može biti r?avo kad ?ovjek ne osje?a da je vrijeme dugo. U ratu nije dosadno, ni u nesre?i, ni u muci. Kad je teško, nije dosadno.

For the desert, a camel is better than a horse. - On Situational Leadership; Stamina vs. Speed

count to forty.

I mean, why? Why did I go on believing? Did it make sense? Why did I go on thinking, even when [he] slammed me around, that if you are good enough, patient enough, for long enough, your reward will come?

Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

C'è sempre qualcosa che arriva a spezzarti il cuore, anche quando pensi che non ci sia più niente da spezzare.

Che ti piaccia o no, le cose succedono e una volta che cominciano a succedere devi solo tenere duro e stare a vedere dove ti mollano quando finiscono.

People did what they could, as powerfully as they could, until they couldn't do it anymore. There wasn't much time.

if you hold on, if you force yourself as hard as you can to find some kind of patience in the middle of all your impatience, things can change.

The past is so tenacious.

oh boo hoo , everyone's life was hard, and if you'd survived the hardship, why write about it? Survival itself was enough.

the rest of life—that imperfect thing—waiting.

When do I stop? When I'm tewnty-five? Thirty? Thirty-five? Forty? Or right this minute? Nobody tell s you how long you should keep doing something before you give up forever.

And I also know that pain can seem like an endless ribbon. You pull it and you pull it. You keep gathering it towards you, and as it collects, you really can't believe that there's something else at the end of it. Something that isn't just pain.

I hadn't known that if you hold on, if you force yourself as hard as you can to find some kind of patience in the middle of all your impatience, things can change. It's big, and it's always incredibly messy. But there's no way around the mess.