Quotes About Endurance

life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.

Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain.

Será que o amor sempre acabava por se transformar em uma longa sucessão de sofrimentos?

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.

Big Mountains are a completely different world. You can not conquer them, only rise to their height for a short time; & for that they demand a great deal. The struggle is not with the enemy, or a competitor like in sports, but with yourself, with the feelings of weakness & inadequacy. That struggle appeals to me. It is why I became a mountaineer.

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

Look! I have here a number of white pebbles. I let them soak in the shade, then hold them in the hollow of my hand and wait until their soothing coolness is exhausted. Then I begin once more, changing the pebbles and putting back those that have lost their coolness to soak in the shade again. . . Time passes and the evening comes on. . . Take me away; I cannot move of myself. Something in my will is broken.

There's a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired..

This is why we're here. To fight through the pain and, when possible, to relieve the pain of others. So simple. So hard to see.

I slide to my knees and say, Please let this be over. Then, I'm not ready for it to be over.

How beautiful to dream. But dreams, I tell Gil, in one of our quiet moments are so damned tiring. He laughs. I can't promise you that you won't be tired, he says. But please know this. There's a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired, Andre. That's where you're going to know yourself. On the other side of tired.

I can't promise you that you won't be tired, he says. But please know this. There's a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired, Andre. That's where you're going to know yourself. On the other side of tired.

He thought of winter coming, how it's the only season that stays like it will never leave;

But, matters now going as they seemed to be, that life would probably not be long. Best spend it doing all I could to withstand the Shadow.

Un cafè non s'arrefuta mai.

The dark was hissing and hot and hard with a jagged bone, a cold brutal bone, and hips packed tight. The dark wasn't just at night. The dark was any time, any place; you open your eyes and the dark is there, right up against you, pressing. You can't see anything and you don't know any names, not who they are or the names for what they do...

I have no patience with the untom, anyone who hasnt weathered rough weather, fallen apart, been ripped to pieces, put herself back together, big stitches, jagged cuts, nothing nice, then something shines out. but these ones all shined up on the outside, the ass wigglers.

If this had been any other racetrack, I would have packed my bags and left.

But this was Saratoga, which I love even during the bad times;

Walk toward the fire. Don't worry about what they call you. All those things are said against you because they want to stop you in your tracks. But if you keep going, you're sending a message to people who are rooting for you, who are agreeing with you. The message is that they can do it, too.

the United States military did not fight a decade-long war to preserve South Vietnam; rather, it fought a one-year war ten times over.

your pain brand new no matter how long it lasts which now means years...