Quotes About Persistence

There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

Memory, in fact, gives you no choice over which moments you can erase, and it is annoyingly persistent in retaining the most painful ones. It is extraordinarily faithful in recording the most hideous details, and it will recall them for you in the future with moments that are even only vaguely similar.

You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort

I felt as if I were running in a labyrinth, chasing after something I could not see yet knew was important. I sensed it was just ahead, and then it would go around a corner, and I would be lost. I would have to decide what to do next, where to go, and what I needed to get out of that confusing place. If I stopped running and stood still, I would be accepting that what I had was all I would ever have. And then I would no longer be lost, because there would be nowhere else to go.

Si el amor persiste pese al dolor de las diferencias, hay que preservarlo como una joya rara

I would beat those wings to stay aloft, and when the wind suddenly died or buffeted me around, I would keep beating those strong wings and fly in my own slice of wind.

La hoja es mucho más paciente que los seres humanos.

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.

It is true that I create over and over again the same difficulties for myself in order to struggle over and over again to master them [but] to continually struggle against the same problem and to continually fail to dominate it brings a feeling of frustration and a kind of paralysis. What is necessary to life, to livingness, is to move on, in other words to move from one kind of problem to another.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

It is hard for me to believe in continuous, sustained happiness, just as it is hard for me to believe in love.

Lillian's recurrent dream of a ship that could not reach the water, that sailed laboriously, pushed by her with great effort, through city streets, had determined her course toward the sea, as if she would give this ship, once and for all, its proper sea bed.

Without the most humble and sedulous grappling with the inner defects there can never be any real mastery—and the most beautiful efforts will come to nought.

I fly, I crawl, I weep, I laugh, I swim, I grow, I fall, I need, I want, I follow, I break, I sink, I love, I exist.

You need to write much much less and sweat more, go through agonies of torture in acquiring that craft which people less gifted than you or me have acquired earlier in their career.

We need only to sharpen up the implements. I can see you giving birth to books in rapid succession. I believe in you enormously—I was genuinely stirred—also exasperated.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

The end of every road is only the beginning of a new one, even longer and more difficult

Art begins with resistance—at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

Nu Å£in cu orice preÅ£ s? parvin, mi-a spus cu un zâmbet fermec?tor, dar Å£in ca ideile pentru care lupt s? izbîndeasc?.

I was still filled as before with an evil curiosity. There was a mystery about the existence of each one of them. I always felt that a part of their lives was concealed. What did they do when I was not there? I refused to believe that they had not better ways of amusing themselves. And I credited each of them with a secret which I pertinaciously tried to discover.