Quotes About Endurance

Gold had discovered, since starting to exercise strenuously several years before, that he was able to make love with greater vitality, stamina, and self-control than formerly, and with much less pleasure.

Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who needs one?

He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt...

It has endured not because it embodies timeless truths that the founders fathomed as tongues of fire danced over their heads, but because it manages to combine the two time-bound truths of its own time: namely, that any legitimate government must rest on a popular foundation, and that popular majorities cannot be trusted to act responsibly, a paradox that has aged remarkably well.

ought not to fight them at all unless we determine to fight them forever.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Sissy,travelling down the road with you was all I have ever wanted in life. The beauty of it! No matter how long this takes, I'll wait.

Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.

Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It's the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.

One crucial distinction between major depression and chronic depression is that, in the latter, one largely ceases to howl in protest that the world is hard or painful. Rather, one becomes accustomed to it, expecting such hardship and greeting it with, at best, a stoic determination.

How true it is that 'God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,' or in other words, that He renders the worst of human conditions tolerable, while He permits the best, to be nothing better than tolerable.

From a young age, Lincoln experienced psychological pain and distress, to the point that he believed himself temperamentally inclined to suffer to an unusual degree. He learned how to articulate his suffering, find succor, endure, and adapt. Finally, he forged meaning from his affliction so that it became not merely an obstacle

You get hurt, hurt 'em back. You get killed, walk it off.

That wouldn't be a first, now would it? Jean. Jean Grey is dead, Agent. Yeah, that'll last.

Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough - from Firefly

Life's not a song. Life isn't bliss, life is just this. It's living. You'll get along. The pain that you feel can only heal by living. You have to go on living. So one of us is living.

When she broke on Earth, the light in her was not broken. We cannot break light, nor can we destroy it.

When the world as as knew it ended, we stood up again in the ruin, and found a way to keep walking through tears.

You have paid the cover charge thousands of times over with your lives and now you are afraid you can never get out.

Be who you are, even if it kills you. It will. Over and over again. Even as you live.

Because who would believe the fantastic and terrible story of all of our survival those who were never meant to survive?

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card, when nothing has seemed worth enduring for another five minutes... and somehow the activity of writing changes everything. Or appears to do so.