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Gaman (我慢) is a Japanese term of Zen Buddhist origin which means "enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity". [1] [2] The term is generally translated as "perseverance", "patience", or "tolerance". [3]
These heartwarming rescue stories highlight the journeys of animals finding loving homes after enduring hardship. In one case, a volunteer at a Florida shelter realized he loved Casper the dog too ...
Endurance art is a kind of performance art involving some form of hardship, such as pain, solitude or exhaustion. [2] Performances that focus on the passage of long periods of time are also known as durational art or durational performances. [3] Human endurance contests were a fad of Depression-era America from the 1920s-1930s. [4]
Twins Tashi and Nungshi Malik on endurance trek at the foothills of the Himalayas. Endurance (also related to sufferance, forbearance, resilience, constitution, fortitude, persistence, tenacity, steadfastness, perseverance, stamina, and hardiness) is the ability of an organism to exert itself and remain active for a long period of time, as well as its ability to resist, withstand, recover from ...
Physical courage is bravery in the face of physical pain, hardship, even death, or threat of death; while moral courage is the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition, [1] shame, scandal, discouragement, or personal loss.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
"Biting the bullet" is a metaphor which is used to describe a situation, often a debate, where one accepts an inevitable impending hardship or hard-to-refute point, and then endures the resulting pain with fortitude.
He retreated to the mountains and spent his later years enduring poverty and hardship. [5] Dream Memories of Tao'an was written during this period, although it wasn't published until 1775, forty years into the Qianlong reign.