#endurance

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your will, unless itself wills it.

Does your head ache? Be not hasty to curse. Does your ear ache? Be not hasty to lament.

When you are at one with the Tao, you will live long and your life will be exempt from decay.

He doesn't boast, therefore he has merit. He doesn't glorify himself, therefore he endures.

The ancient saying, 'Yield and overcome,' is not an empty phrase. Truly, if you yield, you will be whole.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? More and more that became for me the real measure of value.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable—perhaps everything.

Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.

What is to give light must endure burning.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Even under the most humiliating conditions, the inner freedom of the soul cannot be taken away.

When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task.

A person who has a why can bear almost any how because his conscience illuminates the path ahead.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Be pure, be calm, and work on without ceasing.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Every trial is a silent lesson in divine endurance.

Patience is the strength of the eternal.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

After the storm has soaked the earth, the ground hardens into stone.

Sit upon a cold stone for three years, and it will become warm.

The roof that weathers the heaviest snow does not shake with the wind.