Endurance

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Marcus Aurelius:Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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Bertolt Brecht: People are too durable, that is their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

Endurance (also related to sufferance and resilience) is the ability of an organism to exert itself and remain active for a long period of time, as well as its ability to resist, withstand, recover from, and have immunity to trauma, wounds, or fatigue. A person is able to accomplish or withstand a higher amount of effort than their original capabilities means their endurance is increasing expressing improvement. Endurance may also refer to an ability to keep going through a tough situation involving hardship, stress, etc,.

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  • Endurance is just not the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn into glory
  • People are too durable, that is their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
Buddha: Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
  • Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
    • Buddha, in "Quotes about Endurance" p.1
  • Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

C

  • To bear is to conquer out fate.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin:Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with infinite.
  • Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with infinite.

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Charles Dickens: The men who learn endurance are they who call the whole world, brother
  • The men who learn endurance are they who call the whole world, brother.
  • Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care

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Albert Einstein: I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession, and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
  • I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession, and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.

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  • What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed

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  • To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another, - that is surely the base instinct. Baser than even hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has no turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.
    • Barbara Kingsolver, in “Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing”, p.282

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D.H.Lawrence: Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale will still sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding or urging. It is just singing . And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.
  • Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha oder Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale will still sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding or urging. It is just singing . And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.

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  • People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart , but how much the head, can bear.
  • Those who endure conquer.
    • Motto, in "Quotes about Endurance" p.3

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  • An arch never sleeps

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Endurance, and be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it’s the one they will most need to know.
  • Endurance, and be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it’s the one they will most need to know.

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  • Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
  • Success rests with having the courage and endurance and above all the will to become the person you are, however, peculiar that may be. The you will be able to say, “ I have found my hero and he is me”.
    • George Sheehan, in “Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing”, p.425
Sir Philp Sidney: It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
  • It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
  • 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.

T

  • There is nothing love cannot face; there is limit to its faith, its hope and endurance.
    • Paul of Torsus in “Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing”, p. 483

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  • No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

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  • Human life suffers steep inclines on the way through the world. If you don’t keep “endurance” was your watchword as go along, how will you tolerate the thorny undergrowth and the pits and ditches.
    • Hong Zicheng in “Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing”, p.224
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