Quotes About Endurance

At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.

In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I'm grateful to know that it exists.

Love made her patient. It made her hopeful.

Perhaps love doesn't make the world go round, but it makes the bumpy ride worthwhile and provides a glorious destination.

Why can't there be love that never gets tired?

I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you two make me believe that true love really exists. And that even the darkest hours can't take that away.

Getting old is not for sissies.

I want to wear out,' he [Oldfield] said very softly. 'To wear out. Not to rust out.

struggled into their wraps

Never again would he stand all day at a cash

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder.

The hardest part was coming to terms with the constant dispiriting discovery that there is always more hill.

It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a lichen? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours – arguably even stronger.

You can understand why it took nine hundred years to build—and that was with German workers. In Britain they would still be digging the foundations.

Welcome. And congratulations. I am delighted that you could make it. Getting here wasn't easy, I know. In fact, I suspect it was a little tougher than you realize.

Dying is, to coin a phrase, the last thing your body wants to do.

life wants to be; life doesn't always want to be much; life from time to time goes extinct. To this we may add a fourth: life goes on.

The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it.

If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on. Lichens don't. Like virtually all living things, they will suffer any hardship, endure any insult, for a moment's additional existence. Life, in short, just wants to be. But - and here's an interesting point - for the most part it doesn't want to be much.

Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance

All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge.