#endurance

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation? ↗

— Stella Gibbons

#endurance #intelligence

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. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#feelings-of-weakness #happiness #life #literature #movie

Sometimes it seems that men--yes, and even women too!--if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible. ↗

— Carter Dickson

#endurance #strength #men

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

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

I have zero hand-eye coordination - zero - so I've never been good at softball, basketball, golf, things like that, but I'm really strong and I have really good endurance so I can go forever - I'm a tough girl. ↗

— Brooklyn Decker

#been #coordination #endurance #forever #girl