Quotes About Perseverance

I want to be that person for him, I want to be the one who keeps him going during this difficult time. I want to be his lighthouse keeper ... but it's hard. Harder than I thought.

It felt like the world was ending and nothing would ever be the same again. It was, and it wouldn't.

something I've never managed to quite get the hang of.

What's the fun in anything if there aren't a few roadblocks to spice things up?

Why bother doing something if you're only going to do it halfway?

You only know id you can do something if you keep doing it.

Yo no tenía ese tipo de amistad, de las que duran toda una vida, pase lo que pase.

we would always be linked. That wasn't something I could do away with. I knew that now- that love wasn't something you could erase no matter how hard you tried.

Did I screw things up that badly that now he doesn't know? It can't be over, not when I finally found my courage. I can't let it be.

winning was always important, and doubly so because I was a girl and was never expected to win anything. Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.

John took a long time to decide. He went around the circle, weighing all of our merits. Peter was a fast runner, Trevor was strong, Genevieve was crafty, Chris could handle herself in a fight, and for me he said I would never give up hope of being rescued. So he picked me.

Do you remember that? You stayed with me and you pushed me back to shore, and the whole time, you kept saying, 'We're almost there,' and I believed it. I believed it because you were the one who was saying it, and I believed everything you ever said.

Life is long if you let it be.

THE FOND OLD COUPLE WAS DISAPPEARING TOGETHER THROUGH SUCCESSIVE AMPUTATIONS.

Sometimes he knew it was best to believe the stories you told yourself in order to get through a day. After all, didn't the cornerstone of sober living preach getting through life one day at a time?

and when you find yourself lost in the darkness and despair, remember it's only in the black of the night you see the stars.

Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

Dad will come back,' said Charlie quietly. When Mrs Bone turned to him, she didn't look sad at all, in fact she was smiling. 'You know, Charlie, I'm beginning to believe you,' she said. 'After what happened to Henry, I can believe almost anything.

What Keats said: No such thing as the world becoming an easy place to save your soul in.

When my father saw my bloody elbows and knees, he tried to talk me out of flying. "People aren't cut out for it," he explained. "Our bodies are designed all wrong." I didn't believe him. He was the one who had told me about bumblebees, how their wings were too flimsy to support their fat bodies; yet, in the summer, they were everywhere, buzzing impossibly by.

There is a story about a prisoner in Alcatraz who spent his nights in solitary confinement dropping a button on the floor then trying to find it again in the dark. Each night, in this manner, he passed the hours until dawn. I do not have a button. In all other respects, my nights are the same.

Out of dark waters, this.

The invention of the ship is also the invention of the shipwreck...