#duran

They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#endurance

A lesson without pain is meaningless. That's because no one can gain without sacrificing something. But by enduring that pain and overcoming it, he shall obtain a powerful, unmatched heart. A fullmetal heart. ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#fma #fullmetal-alchemist #hiromu-arakawa #endurance

Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#endurance

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un été invincible. ↗

— Albert Camus

#hardship #seasons #self #strength #summer

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge. ↗

— Anne Rice

#endurance

She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith. ↗

— Sage Steadman

#faith #inspirational #religious-faith #faith

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language. ↗

— Aberjhani

#books #creativity #determination #dreams #endurance

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit. ↗

— Dick Francis

#life #self-respect #life

I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out, my arms look better. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#better #comfortable #endurance #feel #i

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#endurance #itself #ruin #time