Quotes About Persistence

a los que buscan aunque no encuentran a los que avanzan aunque se pierdan a los que viven aunque mueran

El tiempo pasa y yo sigo viviendo, con los dolores y las ausencias de siempre pero sigo viviendo.

Los escépticos son apenas mendigos, y el tiempo que transcurre les deja su limosna. No logran escapar del viejo laberinto y reciben mensajes que son indescifrables. Los

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

A trail without beginning has no end.

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

It's just that without wanting to or trying to—and for years I was deliberately trying not to—I held on to love. Or it held on to me. Not active love; not love, the verb form. It was more just there, a small, unshakable thing, leftover, useless, as vestigial as wisdom teeth or a tailbone, but still potent enough so that when I heard his voice on the phone, my heart gave a tiny jump of hope that made me want to slap it.

since she and Marcus and her mother left, she's been close to obsessed with wanting

I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers to life's important questions. They all have fickle, highly whimsical minds of their own. Nevertheless. If you're patient, if you don't rush them, when they're ready, they'll smash into you. And don't be surprised if afterward you're speechless and there are cartoon Tweety Birds chirping around your head.

The heart always finds a way.

nuclear flash in the night. She has been ready for this, more than ready, for a long time. Chasing was good, but never good

Life knocks a man down and he gits up and it knocks him down agin

There was an art to living, and sometimes it required the inexorable, relentless resolve just to keep plowing forward, one step at a time, no matter what the hell it was you were doing.

The good and the bad. It always happens together, and all you can do is press on. Press on.

Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few." -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.

Anybody can say 'I do' at the altar; the hard part is saying 'I do' every day thereafter. Anybody can set a life goal; the hard part is going after it every day. Anybody can say no to any addiction for a day, but you have to say it day after day after day.

We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.

Don't give up on your dream. If you do, you aren't just giving up on its present-tense reality. You're giving up on its future-tense potential. Were

God can deliver you in one day, but it may take years to break old habits or build new habits.

If you want to break the sin habit, you'd better establish a prayer habit.

fail. But I also believe this: One bold prayer can accomplish more than a thousand well-laid plans. So go ahead and plan, but make sure you circle your plans in prayer. If your plans aren't birthed in prayer and bathed in prayer, they won't succeed.

Too often we pray ASAP prayers — as soon as possible. We need to start praying ALAT prayers — as long as it takes.

And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.