Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way.

Isn’t it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the string, collecting itselfto be more than itself as it shoots?

Marriage is a million piece puzzle; a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring...

They’ve been stepping on my toes for years. It’s just a reason to get new boots.

If you feel like a nearly-drowned rat that’s been dragged through the mud, all twisted up inside your mother’s borrowed, prized quilt, having been tossed about by gale force winds that managed to entangle you in barbed wire one-thousand miles from your goal in the middle of a hot, barren nowhere void of any basic...

Life isn’t a lazy cruise on some endless, calm, and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves that wreck and sink your boat. Life is a series of storms―overcast skies, fierce winds, and pelting rain. You were meant to be immersed in it all―first to float, then swim, and eventually...

It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless.

Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival and endurance.

Lodged”The rain to the wind said,’You push and I’ll pelt.’They so smote the garden bed.That the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged — though not dead.I know how the flowers felt.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.

At the end of the day it’s about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.

Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the...

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure,...

[Dancy] is a tremendously fast runner, but he’s still working on his pacing and endurance,

An ever-growing, ever-constant relationship with God makes us certain of what we believe and enables us to run with endurance.

It’s not about what you’re capable of, it’s about what you are willing to endure.

A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrashed to death.

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.

You are at my side, dear friends, and God is everywhere. Yet ultimately we are alone, making our way home by the candle of the heart. The light is steady and sure but extends only far enough to see the next step.Many times the light seems to go out. But another light, one held by...

Quite frankly we are both tired of the race we have been asked to run.

Because Ann learned to trust God fifteen years ago, she is able to trust God now with an even more difficult situation.

hThere was something shameful about surviving sorrow. You were corrupted. She was corrupted. She was no good anymore. She was inauthentic, apocryphal. She wanted to be a seeker and to travel further and further. But after sorrow, such traveling is not a climbing but a sinking to a depth leached of light at which you...

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

Endurance of life problems, spirit of survival.

Life’s difficulties is a test of how much we can endure. Find inner strength,courage and hope to overcome the test of life.

It is never easy to endure pain nor uncomfortable situation. It is seems easy to quit to avoid the pain.If you quit you will suffer later. It is far better to endure the pain now and enjoy later. Life is all about endurance.

Live life in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Relieve your pain.Shedding tears is good for the soul.

I am enduring temporary sufferings to fulfill my dearest dreams.

[…] what’s the use of lying down to die as long as we can stand up and walk.

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.

But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.

The pain you endure today will lead to a better tomorrow. Don’t dwell so much on the pain but focus on the lessons learned. There in lies your strength to rise above all odds. Your best is yet to come.

The breath of wind that moved them was still chilly on this day in May; the flowers gently resisted, curling up with a kind of trembling grace and turning their pale stamens towards the ground. The sun shone through them, revealing a pattern of interlacing, delicate blue veins, visible through the opaque petals; this added...

Some of the things that beat the shit out of you . . . can beat the bullshit out of you too.

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative...

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don’t get master’s degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!

Those 10000 days in prison, but this never made Nelson Mandela to leave what he was doing. He loved what he did and he would repeat to again if he had been arrested again and imprisoned again! He has his bigger picture in view!

It is not the best for us to lay embago on the industries that produce temptations. What we need to do is to compete, overcome and dominate the market with the products of our endurance. No battles we face, no crown will we win. No temptations exist, no conquerors are known.

You may work with 100% capacity every day and may not be seen by anybody for recommendation. This does not mean you should give up! The day you will decide to work at 40% may be the day you’ll be seen by the person who is meant to recommend you for higher profile opportunities!

It is easy to smile in the face of a challenge, when we believe in ourselves that we won’t back down.

The thought that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don’t get master’s degree by attending school on the first day of your life! Time will tell, so you got to persist!

When resistance closes the door against you, remember that persistence holds the key. Don’t give up too early; insist to endure to the end… You will never regret it!

Every tree in the forest has a story to tell. Some of them were burnt but they endured the fire and got revived; some of them were cut, their barks injured, some people pick up their leaves to make medicines for their sicknesses, birds used their leaves to make their nests, etc. Upon all these,...

Discover a purpose that gives you passion. Develop a plan that makes you persistent. Design a preparation and motivates you to optimize your potentials. Do it because you love it!

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often...

Don’t fear the gods,Don’t worry about death;What is good is easy to get, andWhat is terrible is easy to endure.