Quotes About Endurance

nadie debe echar sobre sus espaldas fardo que no pueda llevar.

For Solomon says that, 'He who is not patient shall meet with great harm.

allí donde encontremos la pena más profunda, allí empezaremos la curación.

Amor vincit omnia: Love conquers all.

Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Bear it like a man, even if you feel it like an ass.

No es ningún mérito sufrir

Tapferkeit wird dadurch nicht schlechter, dass sie ein wenig schwerfällt.

Life is tough, then you die.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

Joy and peace are not resignation: resignation is the willing endurance of a pain that is not allayed – that you don't expect to be allayed. Stupefaction is not resignation: and it is stupefaction to remain in ignorance – to shut up all the avenues by which the life of your fellow-men might become known to you. I am not resigned: I am not sure that life is long enough to learn that lesson. You are not resigned: you are only trying to stupefy yourself.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, 'Oh, nothing!' Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts - not to hurt others.

I thought it was all over with me, and there was nothing to try for–only things to endure.

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food—it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

There is no short cut, no patent tram-road, to wisdom: after all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must be still trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

It is but once that we can know our worst sorrows.

for the achievement of any work regarded as an end there must be a prior exercise of many energies or acquired facilities of a secondary order, demanding patience.

But God lasts when everything else is gone. What shall we do if he is not our friend?

Love-making and marriage—how could they now be the imagery in which poor Gwendolen's deepest attachment could spontaneously clothe itself? Mighty Love had laid his hand upon her; but what had he demanded of her? Acceptance of rebuke—the hard task of self-change—confession—endurance. If she cried toward him, what then? She cried as the child cries whose little feet have fallen backward—cried to be taken by the hand, lest she should lose herself.