Quotes About Endurance

Through my misfortunes, my trials and my success

The eons of time have crumbled to dust the proud walls of its temples, but the wisdom of Babylon endures.

Never have they been broken through.

Babylon endured century after century because it was fully protected. It could not afford to be otherwise.

It is just as strong today as it ever was

in spite of his misfortune?

There are limits to my time. There are limits to my strength.

WHERE DETERMINATION IS, THE WAY CAN BE FOUND.

Life is hard and there will always be some who cannot adjust themselves to it.

there is no chain of disasters that will not come to an end.

and finally, having lost what was to be lost, my torn and black heart rebels saying enough already, enough, this is as low as I go

Sometimes with all the teasing his days were subtenable.

O Lord I cannot bear the thought of Philip lying still in such a place as this and when that thought arises must hum some scrap of tune energetically while praying No no no take that cup away Lord let me go first before any of them I love (before Philip Mary Jack Jr before dear Lydia) only that's no good either since when they reach their end I will not be there to help them?

Lightning strikes the slaughterhouse flagpole and the antelope scatter like minnows as the rain begins to fall, and finally, having lost what was to be lost, my torn and black heart rebels, saying enough already, enough, this is as low as I go.

For until we are ended, "never" may not be truly said. jack "malarkey" fuller And love may yet be ours. gene "rascal" kane

There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go. - Christmas , In Persuasion Nation

Though on the surface it seemed every person was different, this was not true. At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end. We must try to see one another in this way. As suffering, limited beings -- Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.

and I though, Well, sir, if we are going to make a sadness party of it, I have some sadness about which I think someone as powerful as you might like to know. (..) , and all the things that they had endured, thinking, Sir, if you are as powerful as I feel that you are, and as inclined toward us as you seem to be, endeavor to do something for us, so that we might do something for ourselves.

Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased.

It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.

The runner need not break four minutes in the mile or four hours in the marathon. It is only necessary that he runs and runs and sometimes suffers. Then one day he will wake up and discover that somewhere along the way he has begun to see order and law and love and Truth that makes men free. It

He runs because he has to. Because in being a runner, in moving through pain and fatigue and suffering, in imposing stress upon stress, in eliminating all but the necessities of life, he is fulfilling himself and becoming the person he is.

Football is a simple game; twenty-two men chase a ball for ninety minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.