Quotes About Endurance

Gerçek ÅŸuydu ki, kötü an?lar asla silinmiyordu. Hay?r, en fazla duraks?yorlard?; aç?lmay? bekleyen bir kutunun içinde bekler gibi duruyor, Bizi özledin mi? Merak etme, hala buraday?z! Ve hiçbir yere gitmiyoruz! diyorlard?.

You've looked into the abyss, and can feel it looking back still;

Shit," he grunted. A minute or so passed. Then he sat up and looked at me. He flexed his leg and flashed his indefatigable grin.

And divorce was the chemotherapy of marriage, so expensive and toxic that only couples in extremis would attempt it as a cure. And if half of marriages were so cancerous that they justified treatment with the equivalent of chemotherapy, what did that say about the others? How many of the nondivorced had just learned to live with the illness because the cure seemed even worse than the disease?

You manage the place?" He smiled. "Something like that." Someone brought a stretcher. The dark-complected guy was gritting his teeth and whimpering. Someone admonished him, "Urusei na! Gaman shiro!" Shut up! Take the pain!

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat, an army instructor once told me, and I've never forgotten the lesson.

My speed and strength were still good. Endurance likewise. Recovery times weren't what they once were, but a steady diet of liquid amino acids for the muscles, glucosamine for the joints, and Cognamine for the reflexes all seemed to help.

In those minutes of gazing at the boiling cistern of waves and watching the albatrosses addressing the storm with great seriousness, I could fix only on what I admired most often in other human beings, their enduring grace and poise.

She talked in flat tones, keeping her mouth half-closed so that the words came out in a mutter without changing the lines of her face. Margaret had suffered much hardship and degradation of body and was unwilling now to offer the world anything superfluous.

No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus! By god, I'd rather slave on earth for another man—

Even when lightning flashes inside them... we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, next pain, next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

Life is more than just steering a course around pain.

A man who can't stay a bit shouldn't approach in the first place. Good advice, I think, and not just for priests.

Even if things go all wrong they'll work out just fine.

You realize that you are in a hell of your own making, but you go on nevertheless. Because there is nothing else to do.

hope is a good thing, and good things never die!

El amor es lo que mueve el mundo. Es la única cosa que permite a hombres y mujeres seguir en pie en un mundo donde la gravedad siempre parece estar queriendo derribarlos, llevarlos hacia abajo, hacerles arrastrarse.

Hearts are tough. Most times they don't break. Most times they only bend.

expect nothing but never lose hope.

You could get used to anything if you had to. She knew that now.

For over a long period of time there's little in life so disheartening as constant cold - not deep enough to kill, mayhap, but always there, stealing your energy and your will and your body-fat, an ounce at a time.

Money can't buy happiness, but it allows one to endured unhappiness in relative comfort.

Sometimes the most horrible things are what give us strength.

Please, always you.