Quotes About Endurance

Dizes isso agora, mas há de chegar uma altura em que irás gostar de alguém e irás amá-lo profundamente e viver e morrer por ele. Eu sei que sim, tu és assim, e serei obrigado a assistir a tudo isso.

smile upon him far, far from foemen's power. And Mohammed, thinking to look upon a dying slave, shall

O Christie! never think it's time to die till you are called; for the Lord leaves us till we have done our work, and never sends more sin and sorrow than we can bear and be the better for, if we hold fast by Him.

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

Blue Juneberry, tough diamond willow.

The heavy winds couldn't blow her off course. She continued. Even when her heart clenched and her skin turned crackling cold it didn't matter, because the pure and naked part of her went on.

Still, Tidewater pushed relentlessly ahead.

Whatever his health problems, he gave an impression of rock-solid durability;

that he had hardly been ill in his life.

When he exhausted his list, he simply started over from the top and visited several firms two or three times.

I ran out of strong.

You've got scars, you're beat up, you're a different person, but you're through it.

Animals never cry. They don't go to pieces and call somebody and go through a box of Kleenex an hour.

It amazed Rachel how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood. And now this brown-eyed child. Don't love it, Rachel told herself. Don't love anything that can be taken away.

can't watch her die," he told her. "I just can't." He waited on the porch till it was over.

It amazed Rachel how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief that was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.

You are not quite ready yet, though. For the next six months, practice until your arms ache and your lips bleed. The suffering will be good for you. A slight smile crossed the conductor's face. If you haven't already found a woman who will break your heart, find one. What we played tonight, especially the Mozart, requires suffering.

I BELIEVE THIS GOVERNMENT CANNOT ENDURE, PERMANENTLY HALF SLAVE AND HALF FREE. I DO NOT EXPECT THE UNION TO BE DISSOLVED—I DO NOT EXPECT THE HOUSE TO FALL—BUT I DO EXPECT IT WILL CEASE TO BE DIVIDED. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Speech at the Republican convention, Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858

In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

La buena noticia es que, si sobrevives, el sufrimiento enseña. La mala noticia es que el verdadero sufrimiento casi siempre mata.

la locura es un enemigo que acecha durante toda la vida, un buitre que te ronda para devorarte. Aún peor: es un buitre impaciente que comienza a roerte las entrañas cuando aún no has muerto.

It was good. And nothing good is ever lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of one's character.