Endure Quotes - Page 17

• I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Honesty, Believe

  "This I Believe", 1952.

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• We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

  Lisa See

  Strong, Men, Thinking

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• To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen.

  Jerome Groopman

  Giving, Miracle, Spirit

  Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.58, Random House

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• Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wise, Mother, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Inspirational, Attitude, Ocean

  Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare”, p.57, B&H Publishing Group

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• People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.

  David Mitchell

  Suicide, Selfish, Careers

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• The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.

  Mary Karr

  Character, Fighting, Water

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• ...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, Struggle, Suffering

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• Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours: In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all, That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Fall, Fighting, Blood

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling: Complete 570+ Poems in One Volume: Songs from Novels and Stories, The Seven Seas Collection, Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, An Almanac of Twelve Sports, The Five Nations, The Years Between…”, p.191, e-artnow

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• I think I can remember being dead. Many times, in winter, I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, how can I endure the earth?

  Louise Glück

  Winter, Thinking, Earth

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• We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Character, Good Friend, Humans

  E. L. Doctorow, Paul Levine (2005). “Three Screenplays”, p.218, JHU Press

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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.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Faith, God, Christian

  "We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". Book by Rulon T. Burton, p. 10, 1994.

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• The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Winning, Sky, Tree

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• I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  New York, Mean, Past

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• If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn't walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Letting Go, Hurt, Heart

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills, books.google.ru. January 18, 2010.

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• My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Sleep, Eye

  Lord Byron (2014). “Manfred”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure

  Epicurus

  Worry, Easy, Terrible

  Epicurus, Brad Inwood, Lloyd P. Gerson “The Epicurus Reader”, Hackett Publishing

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• the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Pain, Firsts, Lost

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• I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Two, Healthy

  bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.120, Routledge

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• The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that exists only in his imagination, and the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

  Anita Shreve

  Struggle, Loss, Light

  Anita Shreve (2002). “The Last Time They Met”, Large Print Press

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• Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to.

  Margo Lanagan

  Real, Sky, People

  Margo Lanagan (2009). “Tender Morsels”, p.400, Random House

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• love wasn't possible in just a couple of days. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two can accomplish separately.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Strong, Couple, Commitment

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jan 30, 2012

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• I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)

  Daphne du Maurier

  Believe, Men, Fire

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• How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

  Bertrand Russell

  World, Cruelty, Palestine

  Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins (Jr.) (2002). “Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor”, p.411, Open Court Publishing

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• At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.

  Richard Wright

  Attitude, Suffering Of Others, Peaceful

  Richard Wright (2017). “Black Boy”, p.99, Random House

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