Quotes About Persistence

Creep, clobber, squawk. Repeat.

at the time of my visit he still had failed to

No one has asked me a question yet, but I will not shut up.

Don't run away from your troubles, because they'll sure as hell run faster.

It was tempting to believe that if you made yourself small and light, beneath notice, you might be allowed to persist nearly anywhere. But meek women were tossed out and forgotten: that was something she had learned from Bertha Truitt herself. What women needed to do was take up space. Become unbudgeable.

As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level.

She had a lot of practice standing things because she had to stand them, which was a hard habit to break.

Don't worry about it." "When you're me, there's always something to worry about. Everything goes wrong for me, and you know it.

You see, the work of maintaining your life with your own skills was never counted in hours. The days were long and arduous, but there was no wishing them to go by.

The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating

the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are

The thing is, you can get used to anything. You think you can't, you want to die, but you don't. You won't. You just are.

It will be over soon, finally, but the thing about hearts is that they want to keep beating. They want to keep beating.

The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating. ~Kyla

and that was when I learned that work gets done if you simply do it.

We are all in lockdown, all the time. We just don't know it, that's all. But we do the best we can. Most of us are just trying to get through.

But it's never starting over, Cindy, it's just continuing on.

I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.

Work gets done if you simply do it.

But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered, letting it seep as far in as it could go, and the remaining dark crevices you carried around with you, knowing that over time they might change into something almost bearable. Dottie

We are only doing what we can to get through.

But we do the best we can. Most of us are just trying to get through.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]