Quotes About Endurance

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

I wrote that song 'Black,' and it was just this idea that I had been married for 10 years. Everyone talks about 'happily ever after,' but there's so much more to it than that.

I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.

I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

I'm not going to get any taller, so I might as well get as strong and lean as I possibly can be.

Patience is passion tamed.

Some people say pain is a fuel for greatness and if that's true, then my tank will forever be full.

When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

That's something I kind of started Week 1, so when it got to where I'm getting a little beat up, I have a routine already for getting my body back together. Just getting in the cold tank, making sure you're getting massages.

When you still have something in the tank, it's really hard to let it go.

Believe you and I sing tiny and wise and could if we had to eat stone and go on.

you should not allow yourself to be convinced by repeated failures,

Let me finish my beer." (Stark) "Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)

The things we do to stay alive for another year. Another day. Another hour. The deals we make with the universe and ourselves. You start to feel dirty.

Reality is a two-ton weight strapped to your balls. And they just keep getting heavier.

How is he?" she says, looking at Kasabian. "He'll be fine. Sore as hell for a while, but fine." "We should all be so lucky." "True. Janet tells me that you're still waiting for a final Immigration interview." She nods infinitesimally.

There's nothing I could have done about it then and there's nothing I can do about it now and that's what I have to live with. Maybe that right there is the definition of life. Being alive is learning how to live with the intolerable.

Maybe I'll live long enough to find out. The way the day is going, though, I'll be lucky to make it through the appetizer course.

Be a rock, James. Otherwise, you'll lose everything.

Sometimes annoyance will keep you going when booze and fear and hope are as dead as the Big Bopper.

To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

The moment you will be most stiff is when you die - you never get stiffer than that. So you've got to sleep well, eat well and keep moving.

Those of us who battle chronic illness are in it for the long haul. I need to come to grips with who I am and what is important before I can function at my best with others. That has yet to happen, for I am a work in progress with no end in sight. Coping is forever an aspiration. I need to stop getting hung up on conventional issues of control and inabilities that just do not matter.