Quotes About Endurance

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us — by taking everything.

Only a fire can teach you what survives a fire. No, it teaches you what can survive that fire.

She had kept her sadness so carefully lidded these last two days that it had thickened into a stock so rich she could smell the salt before she tasted it. Caroline's throat narrowed so she could scarcely draw breath. Only a long thin note, too high to hear, seeped steadily through to warm the roof of her mouth.

I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves —" "I'm going to

Sarah Mlynowski

For Christ's sake don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

Well, what o you want? I said. I am the type of guy who couldn't survive without disfigurement. Life has worked me over. It wasn't just the war, either.... I got a bad wound, you know. But the shots of life... I gave myself a bang on the breast. Right here! You know what I mean, King?

I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want.

and suffering is another bad habit.

If you give an ant infinite time, it can move a mountain all by itself.

In the long run, any system that depends on your willpower will fail.

Sometimes suffering is what's best for us, if only because it keeps us from sinning or tempting others to sin.

Us, on the other hand, they can't kill. But we have to live with the memory of what they do. And really, it's what they do to us that's worse.

First we crawl. Later we crawl on broken glass.

Can't wait to sit down for a while. This pretending to be brave and strong is getting old.

I always, always got to be the last man standing.

Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.

The question, therefore, is not whether a man is weak or strong, but whether he can endure the full extent of his sufferings, be they of a moral or physical nature.

Still, here goes! Whatever may befall, My hope is in your Nothing to find All.

?nsan?n do?as? s?n?rl?d?r," diye devam ettim. "Sevince, kedere, ac?lara ancak belli bir dereceye dek dayanabilir ve o derece a??l?rsa, insan yok olur. Yani söz konusu olan, birinin güçlü ya da zay?f olup olmad??? de?ildir! Kendi ya?ant?s?na ne ölçüde dayanabiliyor, mesele budur!

en conciencia, es más fácil el morir que el soportar con valor y firmeza una vida llena de amarguras y padecimientos.

Now, to go out into the world and bear The earth's whole pain and joy, all this I dare; To fight with tempests anywhere, And in the grinding shipwreck stand and not despair!

Human nature," I continued, "has its limits. It is able to endure a certain degree of joy, sorrow, and pain, but becomes annihilated as soon as this measure is exceeded. The question, therefore, is, not whether a man is strong or weak, but whether he is able to endure the measure of his sufferings. The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.