people like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice.
“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”
― Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
― 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.”
― Reconstructing Amelia
― Reconstructing Amelia
“I think it was Mother Teresa who said that loneliness is the worst kind of poverty,”
― Firefly Lane
― 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.”
― Firefly Lane
― Firefly Lane
“What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?”
― Firefly Lane
― Firefly Lane
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