Quotes About Persistence

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree

Threads that are golden don't break easily.

Nadja, who is always hunting for a man, but always the wrong one, is trying to get together with Ebbe's brother Karsten, who she would fit like a ring in his nose.

Het is lastig om jezelf te blijven als de dingen om je heen constant van vorm veranderen.

They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.

It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched.

It takes a long time sometimes," she said, "It can take a terrible long time before things sort themselves out.

du försöker leva riktigt men jag försöker leva rikt, det är som en äng där jag plockar här och där av hjärtans lust men du går rakt igenom och kommer ut på andra sidan med tomma händer därför att du inte har hittat just den blomman du ville ha.

I, who see the end of the world every day, and still I'm going on putting my clothes, and taking them off again, and eating and washing-uo the dishes and receiving visits, just as if nothing ever happened!

It's funny about love, the more you love someone, the less he likes you back. And so, what do you do? You go on loving, you love harder and harder.

Passion. As you can see, I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a long time, which is the same thing. And you know what? In the whole silly business, the only thing that really matters is passion. It comes and it goes. At first it just comes to you free of charge, and you don't understand, and you waste it. And then it becomes a thing to nurture.

At the same time they both caught sight of a third curly flourish on a tree-trunk right in front of them, but it was terribly high up, at least three feet above the ground. "That's it, I'm sure," said Sniff, stretching himself. "I must be taller than I thought!

Hvis man prøver av alle krefter, til det ytterste, må det ikke være hensikten som teller mest, teller mer enn hvordan det til slutt gikk?

It was a long time before the Snork came back with the wood. "Well, there you are at last," said his sister. "It took quite a time, said the Snork, "because, of course, I had to find pieces that were all exactly the same length." "Is he always so particular?" asked Snufkin. "He was born like that," said the Snork Maiden.

In fondo, quello che conta è questo: non stancarsi mai, non cadere nell'indifferenza, non perdere l'interesse né la propria inestimabile curiosità – sarebbe come arrendersi alla morte. È semplice, no?

When the kite was finished, it refused to fly and kept slamming into the ground as if it wanted to destroy itself, and finally it threw itself in the march. Sophia put it outside Grandmother's door and went away.

is that they come up with so many ideas and then they manage to carry them out and believe so strongly in what they do.

Minähän koen joka päivä maailmanlopun ja kuitenkin pukeudun ja riisuudun ja syön ja pesen astioita ja pidän teekutsuja aivan kuin mitään ei olisi tapahtunut!

I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a long time, which is the same thing. - An Eightieth Birthday

Sannheten må slås inn med harde spiker, men ikke noe menneske kan slå spiker i en madrass!

It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.

The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.

On niitä jotka jäävät ja toisia jotka lähtevät, niin on ollut aina. Kukin saa valita itse, mutta on valittava ajoissa, eikä koskaan saa antaa periksi.