Quotes About Persistence

I can't live, I've tried and I can't. If that sounds simple, it's simple like a mountain is simple.

my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

I found it, and now I can't look for it

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of

Die Ohnmacht des Einzelnen ist der Grund, aus dem alle es versuchen muessen

the thirst I had of seeing the world, notwithstanding my past misfortunes, continuing as violent as ever.

Be patient. Don't give up. This life's not over yet. It will get better. One day you will enjoy the most perfect final exit.

Cuando creemos y confiamos en que de alguna forma se puede seguir adelante, nuestras posibilidades de avanzar se multiplican.

Cuando se encuentre en un callejón sin salida, no sea idiota, salga por donde entró.

El camino de la satisfacción de todo sujeto siempre transita entre murallas de imposibles.

Los sueños se van desechando y los que quedan se dejan para después. Si uno no se pone en la tarea de realizarlos, el castillo se desmorona sin siquiera haberlo construido.

Mi empresa no es difícil, esencialmente. Me bastaría ser inmortal para llevarla a cabo. Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote

Noches hubo en que me creí tan seguro de poder olvidarla que voluntariamente la recordaba. Lo cierto es que abusé de esos ratos; darles principio resultaba más fácil que darles fin.

Sólo persisten en el tiempo las cosas que no fueron del tiempo.

I tada, kao i danas, svet beše surov; samo su ga sr?ani mogli proputovati, ali i bednici, koji se na sve priviknu.

Panagulis, en 1973, la llevó a una colina del Peloponeso a ver tres letras escritas en la tierra, entre los árboles. Las letras eran OXI (que en griego significa «NO»). Cuenta cómo a pesar del viento y la lluvia, y del intento de los generales por desaparecerla con cal, las tres palabras reaparecían tercamente.

keep on following, waiting our chance

Social structures, types and attitudes are coins that do not readily melt. Once they are formed they persist, possibly for centuries, and since different structures and types display different degrees of this ability to survive, we almost always find that actual group and national behavior more or less departs from what we should expect it to be if we tried to infer it from the dominant forms of the productive process.

We have, all of us, more reasons for staying than for marching. What's the point in marching if you are only going to catch up with a very sad tune?

I had to climb a mountain. There were all kinds of obstacles in the way. I had now to jump over a ditch, now to get over a hedge, and finally to stand still because I had lost my breath. This was the dream of a stutterer.

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

Die Mächte des Abgrunds sind nicht leicht zu bannen.

Chodte za svojim stastim a vesmir vam otvori dvere aj tam, kde dovtedy boli iba mury.

students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.