#endurance

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord. ↗

— Michael Novak

#endurance #feel #going #happier #holding

It’s just a thing. You deal with it." "As in, one damn thing after another?" "Yes, very like. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#deal-with-it #endurance #one-damn-thing-after-another #attitude

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#dragon #endurance #hobbit #inspiration #perseverance

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. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#endurance #failure #hard #mantra #moving-on

If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience. ↗

— Sheri L. Dew

#faith #inspirational #lds #patience #sanctification

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

— Dick Francis

#endurance #life #dreams

The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#endurance #experience #inspirational #experience

Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#endurance #expedition #food #hunger #experience

Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion. ↗

— Mikhail Naimy

#endurance #friendship #friendship

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 a stranger or friend, a book or a song, a blackbird or a wild flower, comes close enough so that we can see our path by its light. And in time we realize that the light we have borrowed was always our own. ↗

— Joan Borysenko

#solitude #sprituality #home