Quotes About Endurance

When you sat in the dark every day, it was hard to know how much time passed.

The excellent becomes the permanent.

Fortitude was always to be one of the great virtues for Jane Austen.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art of the unexpected.

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

No Pain No Gain

Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart.

Where there is life, there is hope.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Hope is the hardest love we carry.

Optimism More and more I have come to admire resilience. Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true. But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs — all this resinous, unretractable earth.

However many holes are in you, always there's room for another. However much you carry, you can hold more. "My Corkboard

Don't deny the dreams. They're a gift given to make your life full. Accept them. Reach for them. We are not here just to endure hard times until we die. We are here to live, to serve, to trust, and to create out of our longings.

Overwhelming evidence in resiliency research indicates that a child's ability to endure and rise above painful childhood adversity depends on the presence of at least one caring, nurturing adult

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

Home wasn't built in a day.

i thought about the miseries people conceal and how they manage to survive.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

Annie, it is surrender." Somehow Annie knew what he meant. Eric was about to die. Soon after, he fell into a coma. At half past nine that night, Eric Liddell "surrendered" and died.

I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.