Quotes About Perseverance

It's easy to fall away from the church, no matter the closeness to it in times past. I have done it. So have you. Grown people can do as they please. The 10:30 Sunday morning movie is even an excuse I use. So are Saturday nights that should have ended a lot earlier.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.

Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning and there is so much to see.

We create the illusions we need to go on.

I refuse to let the past find me here.

I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die, Felicity bars. If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.

When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

Life don't come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain't nobody handing it to us.

No one can steal our dream.

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

We are made by what we are asked to bear, Ling Chan," he'd said.

Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.

This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can, he says, and I pull him to me.

The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die. He winks. But not without one hell of a fight.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

What happens if your choice is misguided, You must try to correct it But what if it's too late? What if you can't? Then you must find a way to live with it.

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

It's over, her mind whispered. There's still hope, her heart insisted.

This is how it is now. There is strength in acceptance, Ling. Your legs have been taken from you. But how you choose to live with that has not.

I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.