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“But he who has endured to the end is the one that will be saved.” – Jesus Christ – Matt. 24:13 – Apostle Matthew – The HOLY SCRIPTURES

Children’s talent to endure comes from their ignorance of the alternatives. – Maya Angelou

Adversity is the first path to truth. – Mohandas Gandhi

Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin. – Grace Hansen

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. – Anais Nin

I guess I’ll retire some day, if I live that long. – (Coach) Bobby Bowden

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. – Dolly Parton

“This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.” – Lee Richardson on Peter Finch in NETWORK – Paddy Cheyevsky (Screenplay)

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles. – C. S. Lewis

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. – W. M. Lewis

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very longtime. – Andrew Gide

I really like human beings that have suffered.  They’re kinder. – Emma Thompson

Fall down seven times—stand up eight. – Japanese proverb

Many of life’s failures belong to people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison                                                          

“Why take what you could be giving, why watch as the world goes by, it’s hard enough life to be living, why walk when you can fly.” – Mary Chapin Carpenter – WHY WALK WHEN YOU CAN FLY                      

The pain passes, but the beauty remains. – Pierre August Renoir

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. – Henry Ford

It’s not what you do once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference. – Jenny Craig

Go on failing.  Go on.  Only next time try to fail better. – Samuel Beckett

To believe in something and not live it is dishonest. – Mohandas Gandhi

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“Consider it a joy…when you meet with various TRIALS…knowing the TESTED QUALITY of your faith produces ENDURANCE.  But let endurance complete its work.”  Vs. 12 – “Happy is the man that keeps on enduring trial.” – Disciple James (half brother of Jesus) – James 1:2-4,12– The HOLY SCRIPTURES                  

Storms make trees take deeper roots. – Dolly Parton

Most of the things worth doing in the world were declared impossible before they were done. – Louis D. Brandeis

Crisis is opportunity riding a dangerous wind. – Dennis Waitley           

“Why are we here?” is the most important question a human being has to face.  I believe life has meaning in spite of the meaningless death I have seen. – Elie Wiesel – (Survivor, Nazi concentration camp)                      

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

Impossible is a word only in the dictionary of fools. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Victor Hugo matured in his grief.  One of his daughters went insane.  Adele, his wife, died.  In 1871 one of his sons died.  In 1873 the other died.  He carried these tragedies as a personal portfolio of grief and guilt.  At 80 years, Hugo was a sage—and the poet of the common man.  He stayed in political exile on the island of Guernsey for nineteen years. – Gary Pulliam

Endurance is not just ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. – William Barclay

A rough sea produces a good sailor.  You want to fly with brothers who have survived the worst storms.  A butterfly can still fly with 70% of its wing still gone. – Joseph Siranko – ENDURANCE            

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

Happy is he who can bear what he cannot change. – Freidrich von Schiller      

“I am not an elephant!  I am not an animal!  I am a human being!  I am a man!” – John Merrick (John Hurt) yelling to the curious and cruel crowd at the railway station. – The ELEPHANT MAN – Cristopher DeVore / Eric Bergren / David Lynch (Screenplay) – 1980                                

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty. – John Ruskin

We all wish to be braver and strong in the face of disaster.  We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and effort to help others. – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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