Quotes About Persistence

Des Lebens größtes Geheimnis ist die Kontinuität der Entwicklung. Hört Entwicklung auf, so ist das wie der Tod, und solange der Mensch sich entwickelt, kann Sterblichkeit ihn nicht berühren. Ob mit oder ohne Erfolg, wenn die Seele etwas zu erreichen wünscht, muss die Suche fortgesetzt werden, und durch Zielstrebigkeit wird eine Brücke von der Erde zum Himmel gebaut und vom Menschen zu Gott. (S. 36)

I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

You can do this. Everyday has been a little easier than the last. Today will be better than yesterday and tomorrow will be better than today.

People says it gets easier. People are stupid." -Vlad

They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.

Don't cry about what you see that you don't like, work at it.

to believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.

The truth was always out there, you just had to find it.

Evil doesn't just go away.

I am here, trying. I am a person who tries. I do what I fucking can. It's okay to just try.

It's not easy to do the things you dream of doing. Sometimes it's not that easy just to get up in the morning. That's how it is for everyone.

Day in and day out, you are pestered by Barney the Dinosaur, singing about how much everyone loves everyone else and demanding that you turn your frown upside down, in a voice so drippily emphatic that you might like to fashion a shiv out of your sippy cup and gut that purple menace where he stands.

I think about the problem with running from your trouble . The problem is in the stopping. The whole time you think you're getting away from everything, the trouble is running like mad, too, trying to catch up with you. And it doesn't slow down when you do--it keeps on sprinting. So when trouble finally reaches you, it hits you hard (p107)

When you're at rock bottom, strap on a different pair of boots and start climbing - The New Mrs D

Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your body's frailties and conflicts and general revolt, and then one day your body is not separate any more. You've in a sense become the piano or the dance or the word or the prayer. The prayer is in your heart. The prayer is your heart.

I'd run my whole life long to reach you; paddle my way across Atlantic and Pacific; traverse Jungle and Desert to find you; climb cliffs and drop from the sky to rescue you. Anything to be close to you. Any way to say I love you.

writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead.

If I fall I just get back up and keep going. —Lindsey Vonn

Whenever we reach an unexpected barrier in the way of honoring our souls' truth through action, it is essential to dust ourselves off and keep flying toward our dreams.

People told me that if I ignored you, if I pretended that you didn't bother me, you'd eventually give up and move on to the next victim. So why didn't that ever happen?

The real trick is you have to forge your way straight ahead through the trees where there is no path.

You learn over lifetimes. You keep try. You will find middle way to be. This life. Next. You find your way.

Anything too easily won was soon lost or else not worth winning