Quotes About Endurance

The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.

Slow and steady wins the race! From The Tortoise and the Hare.

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but Do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test. Do you love me stripped of everything that might be lost, for only the things I will have for ever?

There is valour in being able to identify a forgiving, hopeful perspective on one's life, in knowing how to be a friend to oneself, because one has a responsibility to others to endure.

He will conclude that love can endure only when one is unfaithful to its beguiling opening ambitions; and that for his relationships to work he will need to give up on the feelings that got him into them in the first place. He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.

Vai entender que o amor só dura quando não somos fiéis às suas sedutoras ambições iniciais e que, para ter um relacionamento duradouro, precisará abrir mão dos sentimentos que desde o início o levaram a amar. Precisará aprender que o amor é mais habilidade do que entusiasmo.

At the heart of stoicism lay the desire to disappoint oneself before someone else had the chance to do so. Stoic­ism was a crude defense against the dangers of the affections of others, dangers that would take more endurance than a life in the desert to be able to face.

A single idea recurs throughout his work: that we best endure those frustrations which we have prepared ourselves for and understand and are hurt most by those we least expected and cannot fathom. Philosophy must reconcile us to the true dimensions of reality, and so spare us, if not frustration itself, then at least its panoply of pernicious accompanying emotions.

that they will be patient and show compassion, that they will trust and forgive, and that they will remain best friends and loyal companions until death.

He will surmise that love can endure only when one is unfaithful to its beguiling opening ambitions, and that, for his relationships to work, he will need to give up on the feelings that got him into them in the first place. He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.

We are together, all else can be endured.

Rachel barely noticed any of it, and not just because she was insulated by the press of bodies on every side fo her. She paid little mind to the deck buckling beneath her like a maddened mule, or even to the stink of feces and urine that the exiles were forced to void where they sat. She was simply numb, her mind having absorbed all the fear it could, like a sponge saturated with water: after a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence.

If you keep asking, eventually someone will say yes

His eyes were hazel, his gray hair tousled, and he wore the look of a man who had seen too much, too soon, and been forced to deal with idiots all too often.

There were some horrors you couldn't fight and couldn't change. The real courage was just in enduring them.

Never despair. Never surrender.

Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.

Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon.

There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses, right?

I've been dog rough, half blind and barking mad for years but you don't catch me going on about it.

Truly, life is hell and death's rough hand our only deliverance.

He went out of the door, and she watched him through the little window, walking slowly to the door of the church. Then she sat down at his table, and put her head on it, and was silent, with the patient suffering of black women, with the suffering of oxen, with the suffering of any that are mute.