Quotes About Persistence

No vinc d'enlloc i escric per sobreviure. Desfaig camins perquè no sé dreceres

People do the same thing with problem partners. If you've waited a year for your partner to change, you're almost magically drawn into waiting another year. And then how can you not wait two more years after waiting the first two years?

I hurtled myself against it before realizing I had to press down the latch.

It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn't always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.

I was patience defined, patience misspelled, patience sounded out slowly, letter by letter, with the t pronounced "shh.

I had written the same word seven thousand times attempting to alchemize time.

i had no money for the bus, so i walked. it was an incredible distance. a horse would get tired galloping there. when birds flew there, it was called migration.

Era um ato de devoção. Um pouco como escrever ou amar alguém — nem sempre achamos que vale a pena, mas, de alguma forma, não desistir disso faz um sentido inesperado depois de um tempo.

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'

Developing a program that will serve you a lifetime is not an instant fix. Attitude shifts take much longer, but when they take, they tend to take for good.

The bet comes to the place it knows, It does not miss its former path, No kind of magic holds it back It comes to those who give it water.

There is no speedy advance except at its proper time. - Alan Henderson Gardiner

As watercourse is replaced by watercourse, So no river allows itself to be concealed. It breaks the channel in which it was hidden.

Forget perfect on the first try. In the face of frustration, your best tool is a few deep breaths, and remembering that you can do anything once you've practed two hundred times.

just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

You only love when you love in vain. Try another radio probe when ten have failed, take two hundred rabbits when a hundred have died: only this is science. You ask the secret. It has just one name: again.

Godinama živio sam u našem smrdljivom zvjerinjaku gotovo gluhonijem, pritajen i povu?en u sebe kao puž i pravi puzavac (...)

My schooldays coincided with a complete ban on teaching the alphabet, and I have a terrible time finding anything in the telephone directory.

Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.

can't let that get in the way." I returned to the guests celebrating my first Mass and enjoyed the rest of the party. Learning

Mitchell Zuckoff

Pritchard buzzed them again, wagging his wings and waving from the cockpit. The dejected PN9E crew thought that was the last they'd see of the plane. But as they watched, Pritchard circled lower and lower over an area several miles away. On Pritchard's orders, Bottoms radioed: "Coming in anyway.

It isn't that I didn't question why I spent all my days waiting

I bet your mom would let me." -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-