Quotes About Perseverance

You can sink a thing deep, weight it down with stones, but eventually, it will surface.

We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to "renounce his personality," and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.

You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

People like Theodore Finch don't die.He's just wandering.

The cadence of suffering has begun - Cesare Pavese I am in pieces.

What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good?

My beloved boat is broken on the rocks of daily life. I've paid my debts and no longer need to count pains I've suffered at the hands of others. The misfortunes and the insults. Good luck to those who remain.

Everyone around you is going to give you a gentle push now and then, but never hard enough because they don't want to upset Poor Violet. You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

If anyone can make it to another world, it's Theodore Finch.

Sometimes in the darkest places, we find the brightest light.

You need shoving, not pushing.

The happy times went away for a while, but they're coming back

when life suddenly changes and you're left picking up the pieces. She says it's actually how you pick up the pieces that defines you.

Writing is so difficult that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.' 

I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don't have to do them all at once.

The bad moments always have a way of coming around again, way too soon.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

If there was one thing I hated in this world, it was folks who told you that you couldn't do something.

But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?

Not here. Not now

There are bright places, even in dark times. And if there isn't, you can be that bright place with infinite capacities.

But here's the thing- even if there aren't any aneurysms in there, these facts won't change: I will still be someone who watches; I will still be someone who is prepared and on the lookout, because at any moment the earth could stop spinning. I've lived through the worst thing that can ever happen to me, and I know firsthand what the world can do.

Just because they're dead, they don't have to be. And neither do we.

It is a new year....It is time to get...back on the camel" -Mr.Black