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• Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.

  Wendell Berry

  Freedom, Heart, Thinking

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.62, Counterpoint Press

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• He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he found himself.

  Jack London

  Dog, Intelligent, Feet

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.115, Lulu.com

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• Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

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• With each spring comes new life, energy and green growth. In summer comes the sun, warm, kind and enduring. Fall brings its canvas of color in careful, gentle change. Winter brews into faithful strength, beauty in pure white. And then comes you. You are all that Nature offers, a blessing, a gift.. You are the fifth season.

  Jason F. Wright

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Jason F. Wright (2007). “The Wednesday Letters: A Novel”

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• Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.

  Alan Weisman

  Earth

  Alan Weisman (2012). “The World Without Us”, p.287, Random House

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• One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal." Discovering that the modern world can still contain the wonder and strangeness of a fairy tale is part of what my novels are about.

  Regina Doman

  Hero, Adventure, Boys

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• Wars come and go; politics endure.

  Jacqueline Carey

  War, Comes And Goes

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy”, p.800, Macmillan

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• To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Daughter, Dirty, Heart

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• Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

  A. E. Housman

  Wise, Moon, Men

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.89, Delphi Classics

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• For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at best a means, not an end; a starting point, not deliverance. These people are looking less for an "electocracy" than for the basic elements that for most of us define a decent life--food, shelter, electricity, basic health care, education for their children, and the ability to make their way through life without having to endure corruption, violence, or arbitrary power.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Mean, Two

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.317, Canongate Books

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• Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.

  James Frey

  Pain, Feelings, Suffering

  James Frey (2006). “My Friend Leonard”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.

  Richard Wright

  Hurt, Hate, Feelings

  Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback

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• So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.

  John Knowles

  Tree, Violence, Changed

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• Some troubles no one else should have to endure,especially not those you love.

  Christopher Paolini

  Should Have, Trouble, Those You Love

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1969, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Bears, Philosopher

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.118, Beacon Press

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• Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it’s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mean, Swings, Mad

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• Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this was the real condition of humanity: The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simmple, sel-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, Real, Ambition

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.193, Bantam

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• The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.

  John Dewey

  Wisdom, Mistake, Thinking

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.69, Kappa Delta Pi

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• Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Jobs, Disappointment, Character

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• She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.

  George Eliot

  Hardship, Earth, Want

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.331, George Eliot

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• Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life... The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worthwhile and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Reading, People, Suffering

  "The Faith of a Heretic" by Walter Kaufmann, Princeton University Press, Ch. 12 (pp. 374-375), 1961.

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• Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Success, Perseverance

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• I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest." His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me. Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Years, Punishment

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1387, Dell

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• Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Men

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 9

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• Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Work, Writing, Common

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