Quotes About Endurance

when you get to the end of your rope?" "Make a knot and hang on," Ayers says.

I bear a little more than I can bear.

Between those times we'll fight to live.

Avoiding pain will get you nowhere. Avoiding pain multiplies pain exponentially.

There's wisdom in applying duct tape to our mouths in suffering seasons. In the raw reality of pain, we do well to sit in silence. But it can also be dangerous to be quiet for too long.

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

Hands down, this is the best day of my life," Olaf says as he begins to drip into a puddle, "and quite possibly the last.

But we can just go out and not have to talk and we feel comfortable. That's love. And I can;t picture it ending.

Marathon is life. And life is where you progress.

For loss is our common denominator. None of us will escape it. None of us will outrun death. What do we do in the space between that is our lives? What is the quality and richness of our lives? How do we move through struggle and let community hold us when we have been laid low? This

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

Instruct me how to thank thee! Oh, to shoot My soul's full meaning into future years, That they should lend it utterance, and salute Love that endures, from life that disappears!

Knowledge by suffering entereth,And life is perfected by death.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

A little sunburnt by the glare of life.

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!

Men could not part us with their worldly jars, Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend; Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars,-- And, heaven being rolled between us at the end, We should but vow the faster for the stars.

This to certify that I am alive after all; yes, and getting stronger, and intending to be strong before long, though the sense left to me is of a peculiar frailty of being; no very marked opinion upon my hold of life. But life will last as long as God finds it useful for myself and others — which is enough, both for them and me.

But the personal feeling is nearer with most of us than the tenderest feeling for another; and my family had been so accustomed to the idea of my living on and on in that room, that while my heart was eating itself, their love for me was consoled, and at last the evil grew scarcely perceptible. It was no want of love in them, and quite natural in itself: we all get used to the thought of a tomb; and I was buried, that was the whole.

Hope: with all the strength thou usest In embracing thy despair