Quotes About Endurance

Borac život iznova zapo?inje svakog trenutka, kako ga i okon?ava.

A ?ovek umire jedino kad mora i kad ne?e.

Look at hopelessness in the face and say: "We are simply not meant to be together." Hold courage's hand and walk away.

No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.

The way I see it, you've gotta put up with the rain to get a rainbow.

The way I see it, if you want a rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Pain is a teaching tool. Sometimes it is used to humble certain people. Sometimes a haughty spirit can be brought down and taught to be more gracious through suffering. It may teach them that they must eventually learn to rise above the pain, and then they can deal with it. Sometimes just understanding pain and why we have it, lessens the pain.

La desdicha es grande, pero el hombre es aún más grande que la desdicha (citando Tagore)

There was no good or bad connected with anything any more.......He regretted nothing; wanted nothing. He was simply existing, and the way things were was the way they had always been and always would be. He didn't care any more. He did what had to be done, and endured in a timeless present, without past or future.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

It was not bleeding quite so badly now, he decided—or maybe he was just running out of blood.

Yet many times I felt terribly alone and was convinced that no one else understood. And I still think that's true. When our pain becomes intense and endures for weeks without relief, no one else really knows. I'm not sure it's worthwhile for them to know what it's like. They care. That's what I think is important.

I've learned that if I stay busy, especially by helping others, I don't think about my pain. In an odd way, my pain is its own therapy. I intend to go on until I can't go anymore.

Most of the time when people have that if-you-can-do-it attitude, I nod, acknowledge what they're saying, and add, "I'm just doing the best I can." And really, that's all I did during the worst days. Sometimes "the best I can" was nothing but to endure. Even when I struggled with depression, it was still the best I could do.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

He tells his guys, you change the oil in a Nissan, you just can't kill it. You'll die before that car will.

it isn't so much what you can dish out as what you can take.

Then know," Caro said, "that you have to accept both sides of this thing. Enjoy the rewards, accept the losses, do the terrible things you sometimes have to do. Never shed blood you don't have to, but when you have to, harden your heart and do it.

La speranza non muore in modo rapido e pulito, come un ramo che si spezza sotto il peso di una nevicata. Appassisce lentamente come una pianta non annaffiata.

Jane has been dead for more than two decades. Earlier this year I grieved for her in a way I had never grieved before. At eighty-six, I was sick and thought I was dying. Twenty and twenty-one years ago, every day of her dying for eighteen months, I stayed by her side. It was miserable that Jane should die so young, and it was redemptive that I could be with her every hour of every day. Last February I grieved again, this time that she would not sit over me as I died.

Life isn't a race. It's a relay.