180 quotes found
“No drugs here, no manipulation of neurotransmitters that leaves our worldly problems unattended. And no talking cures because explicit insight is not needed. All that is required is courage: the co...”
“Running strengthens self-motivation.”
“Own 100 percent of your focus. The most challenging of endurance drills will bring you to a level of optimal mental and physical performance.”
“Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine.”
“With extra patient, realities will enfold.”
“Endurance, I reminded myself, is the true measure of existence.”
“And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne...”
“If you endured the suffering, shall find the joy of overcoming any difficulty.”
“All too often, we are pleasing the enemy MORE than we are pleasing God by living defeated. Jesus did not die for us to walk around defeated. You have the POWER to turn any situation around that you...”
“In the wilderness, we walk and keep the way of the Creator”
“It is not so much what people suffer that makes the world mysterious; it is rather how much they miss when they suffer. They seem to forget that even as children they made obstacles in their games ...”
“That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this...”
“I understand you.You do not suppose that I have ever felt much.For four months, Marianne, I have had all this hanging on my mind, without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature; knowi...”
“Sometimes, for the present," I said, turning to April, "all we can do is hold on. Sometimes it's that ability, and that ability alone, that gets us through the rough parts. But if we do hold on, th...”
“Jamie reflected that if he purposely went down to the crags of the Pacific and threw himself to the sharks, when he came before God and his father and mother, he could carry no smiling secret on hi...”
“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning,...”
“When the silence of the night becomes the chanting of poetry, the departure of con-cavity”
“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...”
“It would be easy to call it quits. Occasionally I have these moments, not often. There is nothing to do but sit still until they pass. Tantrums and passions I don't need, endurance is what I need. ...”
“Craving for the top of the mountain is a feeling to yearn for, an endurance we learn from.”
