Quotes About Perseverance

For the third time since I began, my walk has been delayed. In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions---but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey. No matter how much I, or the rest of humanity wishes otherwise, life is not lived in smooth, downhill expressways, but in the obscure, perilous trails and rocky back roads of life where we stumble and feel our way through the fog of the unknown.

The sun will rise again. The only uncertainty is whether or not we will rise to greet it. Alan Christensen's diary

There is one day that has brought me unspeakable pain, & the effects of that day continue to cover & erode my world like rust. I suspect that someday the rust will eat through the joists & posts of my life & I will topple, literally as well as figuratively.

when faced with overwhelming loss and stress, a man must choose to live and find his own way through his broken heart.

That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger," Mike said. "Except bears. Bears will kill you.

One day McKenna got hot enough

Jade Dragon will go.

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak

if you take away everything a man lives for, then what does he live for?

Hard things don't always make life harder. It takes something hard to sharpen steel.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain. Some people go to such lengths to avoid pain that they give up on life. They bury their hearts, or they drug or drink themselves numb until they don't' feel anything anymore. The irony is, in the end their escape becomes more painful than what they're avoiding.

All great men are delusional. How else could they be crazy enough to think they could change the world?

We don't appreciate the things that come easy to us as much as we do the things we have to work for. I think that's true for love as well.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes the most whole people are those who come from the most broken circumstances.

Si tu ne perds pas de vue ce qui te motives, tu surmonteras toutes les épreuves.

There have been seasons of my life when rejection rained down. And then there have been typhoons. Kimberly Rossi's Diary

Richard Paul Evans

Though adversity is the fertile soil in which the human spirit best grows, we loathe it still. I do not see how it can be otherwise, for no rational being seeks out pain and misfortune. Still, I cannot help but wonder if it is not somehow wrong to enjoy the fruit but curse the tree.

Or take fame for instance. For one brief moment, a man finds himself on a throne. And for a while he believes himself specialã…¡a little bit better than everyone else. But then he discovers that his throne is just another seat in an ongoing game of musical chairs and eventually he's gong to lose his place. Sometimes he spends the rest of his life trying to get back to the chair.

Truth is patient. It can afford to be, for eventually it will have its way.

We live in a world that's always making us work for love.

Richard Paul Evans

We do not succeed in spite of our obstacles and challenges. We succeed precisely because of them.