Quotes About Endurance

M?sura-probabil cea mai bun?- a m?re?iei unei persoane este capacitatea de a suferi''.

The truth is that I want It, and the price I must pay is to ask the question again and again and again

It is hardly remarkable that we sicken and die; what is truly remarkable is that we don't usually sicken very often and we don't die very quickly. We can therefore say the same thing about physical disorders that we said about mental disorders: There is a force, the mechanism of which we do not fully understand, that seems to operate routinely in most people to protect and encourage their physical health even under the most adverse conditions.

One measure—and perhaps the best measure—of a person's greatness is the capacity for suffering.

But the substitute itself ultimately becomes more painful than the legitimate suffering it was designed to avoid.

So long as there is breath in me, I will serve life—serve life—serve life.

disse-lhe que era preciso ter paciência, que os desgostos eram a parte principal da vida; os prazeres eram a exceção…

Não importa ao tempo o minuto que passa, mas o minuto que vem. O minuto que vem é forte, jucundo, supõe trazer em si a eternidade, e traz a morte, e perece como o outro, mas o tempo subsiste.

Some inventions change or die; even institutions die; but the clock is definite and perpetual. The last man on earth, as he bids farewell to the cold, dead sun, is sure to have a watch in his pocket, so as to know the exact hour of his death.

Não chores, meu bem; não queiras que o dia amanheça com duas auroras.

César ou João Fernandes, tudo é viver, assegurar a dinastia e sair do mundo o mais tarde que puder

Era refratário às lágrimas; por isso mesmo padecia mais.

CXIX - Parêntesis: Matamos o tempo; o tempo nos enterra.

Paciência de curioso, que ninguém a tem maior, nem mais fria.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

On the other side of pain, there is still love.

We must pray when prayer seems dry as dust; we must write when we are physically tired, when our hearts are heavy, when our bodies are in pain.

But I'm not patient! cried Meg passionately. I've never been patient!

A life form which can't adapt doesn't last very long.

On a planet that has given in... you must prepare to be very strong.

Joy is what has made the pain bearable and, in the end, creative rather than destructive.

The answer has something to do with love. Love that has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark acceptance before it can come out into the far light of the sun.

This book that defied the categories has now endured for more than half a century, finding new readers in each generation. What is its secret? And what kind of person could produce such a book? Madeleine, c. 1920

we do not have to understand God's ways, or the suffering and brokenness and pain that sooner or later come to us all. But we do have to know in the very depths of our being that the ultimate end of the story, no matter how many aeons it takes, is going to be all right.