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Endurance Quotes
"Love is what remains after the falling in love is gone."
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"We wait for the rains to cease, the clouds to part, and the sun to shine before saying life is good. Ironically, it is because we endure the storms that life seems so wonderfully bright at their passing."
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"Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest."
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"Being broken open by the storm is your only hope."
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"Be faithful to God in your assignment and remember that in any case you will go through trials."
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"Raging fires grow from the tiniest spark; it is the same principle at work in life. As long as there's a spark, tend to your fire. Never give up."
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"It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait."
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"Sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in."
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"Sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyearsseem wasted " stretched there upon my bedin the darklooking upward at the ceilingi get what many will consider anobnoxious thought:it's still nice to beBukowski."
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"Even then, I was dreaming of Raistlin's black robes one moment, and Dorsett's spin move the next. This was what my father deeded - that our Knowledge of Self be more than America, that we understand the brain death that sprawled from the projects to the subdivisions. Consciousness was a beginning, but the imagination could turn straight 18s into paladins in plate, could make warrens in tunnels from graph paper, could pull armies of gnolls from miniatures - that was the Knowledge that ultimately would find a way out."
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"A stone, no matter how small, resists the wind."
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"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue."
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"Removing the finish line is a useful tactic if your goal is to just keep running the race."
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"A certain readiness to perish is not so very rare, but it is seldom that you meet men whose souls, steeled in the impenetrable armour of resolution, are ready to fight a losing battle to the last, the desire of peace waxes stronger as hope declines, till at last it conquers the very desire of life. Which of us here has not observed this, or maybe experienced something of that feeling in his own person - this extreme weariness of emotions, the vanity of effort, the yearning for rest?"
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"Your voice may not be loud today or be heard today, but make sure you are still standing on your feet."
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"Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you."
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"God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be."
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"A river continues to flow despite losing a few drops at each turn."
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"I walked without breaks, slept through nights without waking, inhumanly smooth " a small machine."
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"Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and you have got a stone: break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrised; do not doubt that your mental stomach - if you have such a thing - is strong as an ostrich's; the stone will digest. You held out your hand for an egg, and fate put into it a scorpion. Show no consternation; close your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm. Never mind; in time, after your hand and arm have swelled and quivered long with torture, the squeezed scorpion will die, and you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob."
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"Love has never been conquered, not even by the greatest army."
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"I will not move an inch, I've become an anvil to endure every act of striking."
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"One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks."
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"There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a fool has no sorrow, only an idiot has no grief - but then only a fool and an idiot will let grief and sorrow ride him down into the grave."
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"The true test of a warrior is how your 'stance' holds up after any 'circumstance'. Meaning, even after the stormiest weather, a true warrior will still reflect the brilliant rays of the magnificent sun through both his or her eyes. You may get hit by sudden lightning or take severe beatings from the cruel wind, but you will always get back up and stand strong on your feet again, soak in the sunlight, and be prepared to get hit by even the most merciless hail - time and time again."
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"Deeds of endurance, which seem ordinary in philosophy, are rare in conduct."
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"On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish."
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"And I guess at the end of the day, you're just amazed that I can still stand, and I'm just amazed that I can stand still."
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"Undoubtedly, our weariness is not based on the fact that we're running. Rather, our weariness is all too frequently based on the fact that many of the things that we're running from are the very things we should be running to."
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"This. I live in this place, make porridge, scrub toilets, do laundry, and for days, weeks, I am brave and I do get out of bed and I think on this. I study this, the full life, the being fully ready for the end. I start to think that maybe there is a way out of nightmares to dreams? Maybe?"
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"I'll be fine. I'm always fine."
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"Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough."
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