Quotes About Endurance

love without being destroyed...

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.

And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.

It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won't.

Rather than run aimlessly away, it would be best, I suppose, to face the situation squarely and get used to it once and for all.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

Patience itself was not necessarily defeat. Rather defeat really began when patience was thought to be defeat

The reason men somehow go on living, enduring the gaze of others, is that they bargain on the hallucinations and inexactitude of human eyes.

When he actually began working, for some reason he did not resist it as much as he thought he would. What could be the cause of this change? he wondered. Was it the fear that the water would be discontinued? Was it because of his indebtedness to the woman, or something about the character of the work itself? Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

Waiting was a bore. With work one understands one's own effort is everything, but in waiting one can't use one's own strength.

Olmamas?na raz?y?m. Oluyormu? gibi olmas?n yeter.

Well, and what if we give in to our troubles at every step! We would be pitiable creatures indeed to be so weak, for is not a man's spirit given to him to rise above his misfortunes? As for our wants, they are many and unfilled, for who is so rich or compassionate as to supply them? Want is our companion from birth to death, familiar as the seasons or the earth, varying only in degree. What profit to bewail that which has always been and cannot change?

compassion" derives from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning "to suffer, undergo, or experience." So "compassion" means "to endure [something] with another person," to put ourselves in somebody else's shoes

Qur'an insisted tirelessly. "If one is patient in adversity and forgives—this, behold, is indeed something to set one's heart upon.

Can you not see that we still might win? We lost a battle, not a war.

Once you've spent a winter buried in the Alpine snow foraging for food, it's hard to complain over heat.

And that was love. True love. The kind that carried on and lasted through the good days and the difficult days. The kind of love that always gave, and never hurt. It might not be the kind of mad love poets wrote about, but it was the kind of love strong enough to build a home upon, secure in the knowledge that this man would be there when things went wrong and would do everything in his considerable power to make things right again.

He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.

Threadbare, ravaged by love – as who amongst us is not.

You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been

But change is the only constant, and life goes on.

I've sweated and grunted and pushed myself until I thought it would be easier to give up and die. ' - Caroline