Quotes About Endurance

A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.

You have special abilities," she goes on. "I don't mean you are a witch or a fox spirit. And you've never seemed drawn to the special gift of healing or magic. Rather, you are like A-ma Mata, who gave birth to the Akha people, who pushed against her restraints, who said, 'No, I will not accept my bad fate,' and who endured against all odds with her intelligence, compassion, and perseverance. All that comes from this grove. And the mother tree." A-ma

We were to be like long vines with entwined roots, like trees that stand a thousand years, like a pair of mandarin ducks mated for life

You may not know this, but the cold-water stress that the haenyeo endure is greater than for any other human group in the world.

If you try to live, you can live on well.

Only through pain will you have beauty. Only through suffering will you find peace. I wrap, I bind, but you will have the reward.

When the string breaks while working, there is still the rope. When the oars wear out, there is still the tree, she recited. You feel you can't go on, but you will.

I focus my eyes on my jade bracelet. All these years and for all the years after I die, it will remain unchanged. It will always be hard and cold- just a piece of stone. Yet for me it is an object that ties me to the past, to people and places that are gone forever. Its continued perfection serves as a physical reminder to keep living, to look to the future, to cherish what I have. It reminds me to endure. I'll live one morning after another.

Sometimes you must experience heartache to have a treasured result.

Hyacinth bean and papayas, long vines, deep roots. Palm trees outside the garden walls, with deep roots, stand a thousand years.

We're told that men are strong and brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat, and bear physical and mental agony much better than men.

Your tears will be added to the oceans of salty tears that wash in great waves across our planet. This I know. If you try to live, you can live on well.

Her laugh carries weariness and despair) All you can do is live. You don't have a choice. Life continues whether we want it to or not. The sun will rise despite our suffering.

Could love be strong enough to outlast death not once but three times?

If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.

We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.

Never forget those first five minutes, when you thought how much you loved each other was the only thing that mattered. Because in truth it is the only thing that matters. That love is what gets you through all the other stuff.

Maybe that alone was the foundation of a good marriage, an endless willingness to forgive and to love in spite of ourselves, an ability to ride the highs and endure the lows, the decision to always go home. She

No one ever talks about the power and comfort of a true friendship that endures years. The friend who worries about you, is there when you call, brings soup when you're sick, camps out on your couch when you're sad. There aren't many friends like that. If you have one, be grateful. I know I am.

It is not the strongest among us who survive. Nor is it the most intelligent. It is those among us who are the most adaptable to change.

Thank goodness for grandparents. Paul never seems to get tired

Maybe you're still friends with people even after they hurt you, even if they keep hurting you. Because there's something there. Something true and deep that stays even when it aches.

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Where I train we smack our palms and knuckles against cinderblocks. This action creates tiny fissures in the bones. When those fissures heal, the bone is stronger. I can put the blade of my palm through a two-by-four.