Quotes About Endurance

I've never liked giving up on a book once I've started it. I always hold out hope that there will be some riveting development toward the end, though the chances of that are pretty slim.

People devote a lot of energy to thinking about things. Whether they want to or not. Yet in the end we all just have to wait - only time can tell how events play out. The answers lie ahead.

I trudged along through each day in its turn, looking up only rarely, eyes locked on the endless swamp that lay before me, planting my right foot, raising my left, planting my left food, raising my right, never sure where I was, never sure I was headed in the right direction, knowing only that I had to keep moving, one step at a time.

Harvey Araton

If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.

So if fitness is about persistence, then the apropos question is, The persistence of what?

There's a Buddhist saying that when your house is done your life is over. I hope Tom works on Camp Weasel forever.

There is no secret to being, as Linnus says, in that "first percentile," that minority of young couples who stay together for life. It's as simple, and as complicated, as keeping that look in your eyes.

But the life of Spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself untouched by devastation, but rather the life that endures it and maintains itself in it. It wins its truth only when, in utter dismemberment, it finds itself.... Spirit is this power only by looking the negative in the face, and tarrying with it. This tarrying with the negative is the magical power that converts it into being. This power is identical with what we earlier called the Subject.

We can't live in whatever.

One day Surpresa was on his way to minister, and his car broke down. He walked eight hours in the rain, mile after mile, carrying a tire. He just sang the whole time, praising Jesus.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going

We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

You can burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe, but the ideas in them have seeped through a million channels and will continue to quicken other minds.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Character is not achieved by ease and quiet, it develops through trial and suffering

Meskipun dunia penuh dengan penderitaan, dunia juga penuh dengan perjuangan untuk menaklukkan penderitaan itu.

When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

To those people doubting Serena Williams, writing her off - do not do that to a champion.

As long as there's breath in our lungs our story is still being written.

'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end of the book and writing other stuff... My life as a writer was carried on against the odds. I had written four unpublished novels by then... as a writer of fiction, I hadn't gotten very far. I just wanted to do it.