Quotes About Endurance

nearing the end of a long teaching career, knowing I am in many ways ordinary yet still striving to count myself heroic.

The highest "calling and election" is to do without opium and live through all our pain with conscious clear-eyed endurance.

No creo que haya ninguna muerte indolora, aunque solo dure un segundo. Aunque nos corten la cabeza o nos disparen en el corazón. La vida es demasiado fuerte para desaparecer sin algún tipo de sufrimiento.

Women survived heartache and disappointment all the time, and daily demands that men could never fathom.

THE STRONGEST MAN ALIVE IS THE MAN WHO CAN HOLD HIS PEACE IN THE FACE OF EVERY AGGRAVATION, AND THE WEAKEST ONE IS HE WHO CANNOT HOLD THAT PEACE!

Fatigue is the physical confirmation of superior effort.

God is the only one who will stand by you when the last leaf on the tree of trust falls."

Time doesn't die.

Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.

We want a good life with a nose for things, the fresh wind and bright sky to endure my suffering. I'm a hole without a key if I break my tongue. Oh, speaking of tomorrow, how will it ever come?

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

ego-depleted people therefore succumb more quickly to the urge to quit.

Man kann dem Schrecken gegenübertreten, bis er nachgibt und sich zurückzieht.

AND NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU FAIL, WHILE LIFE REMAINS YOU CAN ALWAYS GIVE YOURSELF ANOTHER CHANCE EVEN IF NO ONE ELSE WILL; CAN ALWAYS CHOOSE TO TRY AGAIN.

Relax. Everything will resolve itself in time— this is the way of the world.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

La ripetizione rassicura. È prova di intimità. È il respiro stesso dell'intimità. E lui ha proprio bisogno di ritrovare quel soffio: - Ancora! - - Ancora, ancora...- vuol dire, su per giù: - Dobbiamo proprio volerci bene, noi due, per accontentarci di quest'unica storia, ripetuta all'infinito!- Rileggere non è ripetersi, ma dare una prova sempre nuova di un amore instancabile. Quindi rileggiamo.

By the end of the third day, I hated it. I hated it with all my heart. Nothing was going to change. The only thing I was learning was that boredom can hurt like physical pain, like wearing an iron hat, like sandpaper clothes, like being crushed under a big stone.

Any fool can slide down the mountain, but it takes someone of character and discipline walk up one. - Luigi Donati

a recitation of the Lord's Prayer. "And may you grant us the strength and determination to complete our

We did what we always do. We closed ranks, burned our files, and waited for the storm to pass.

there was nothing more dangerous, he thought, than a patient man.

You wake up in this here world, my sweet li'l mister, you got to wake up tough. You go out that front door tough of a mornin' and you stay tough 'til lights out—have you learned that?