Mandy Leonards

“endurance is “the struggle to continue against a mounting desire to stop.”5 That’s actually Marcora’s description of “effort” rather than endurance (a distinction we’ll explore further in Chapter 4), but it captures both the physical and mental aspects of endurance. What’s”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“Sometimes it’s hard to tell how fast the current’s moving until you’re headed over a waterfall.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“I think it was Mother Teresa who said that loneliness is the worst kind of poverty,”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“Thoughts—even fears—were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice, and once given that weight, they could crush you.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane