Quotes About Endurance

Owl was explaining that in a case of Sudden and Temporary Immersion the Important Thing was to keep the Head Above Water...

God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death...is the true measure of the Divine within us.

Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

You can't go through sustained cruelty and terror for a large swathe of your life and not talk about it and be okay.

Even after being beaten down lower than I thought possible, I always bounced back. I still looked for love again.

Everyone at some point will suffer a loss—the loss of loved ones, good health, a job. It's your desert experience—a time of feeling barren of options, even hope. The important thing is not to allow yourself to be stranded in the desert." — Patrick Del Zoppo

Far too often we lose patience with the process and quit too soon, missing out on what we could have gained.

We learn, under occupation, that there's more rat in us than we knew.

There were some horrors you couldn't fight and couldn't change. The real courage was just in enduring them.

Heaven help me, Hideki thought. I've gotten used to it.

Julia Gary.

I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

As long as the candle is still burning, it is still possible to accomplish and to mend!

After the greatest clouds, the sun.

I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

And he told me illegitimi non carborundum translates to, 'Don't let the bastards grind you down.

That's how it is with me. I keep burning. I am the burning man.

The race is not always to the swift." "Nor the battle to the strong.

Mickelson ExxonMobil

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself

Don't let the bastards get you down.