Quotes About Perseverance

I'll die as I've lived, amid all the junk on the outskirts, sold by weight among the postscripts of the broken.

In the end, everything will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not yet the end. ~Fernando Sabino, translated from Portuguese

De tudo, ficaram três coisas: a certeza de que ele estava sempre começando, a certeza de que era preciso continuar e a certeza de que seria interrompido antes de terminar. Fazer da interrupção um caminho novo. Fazer da queda um passo de dança, do medo uma escada, do sono uma ponte, da procura um encontro.

It will all be okay in the end, and if its not, then its not the end.

Everything will be alright in the end, and if it's not alright, it's not yet the end!

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end.

Una cosa es el heroísmo y otra cosa el suicidio por inanición

Hay algo más cristiano que la mosca? La mosca es constante, persistente, zumbona. A la mosca le gusta andar en las llagas, en el pus, en la basura, como a los verdaderos cristianos.

Ser libres para intentar algo no tiene nada que ver con lograrlo indefectiblemente

Believe me, circumstances are never favorable. We should not depend on them. What is important is what one feels, what one wants, what one knows. We have to live despite reality and even against it, without waiting for it to be conducive as do the deluded, or the cowards.

nec metu nec spe, el

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.

Give me the courage to stand the pain to get the grace.

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you.

When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.

I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.

Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices.

There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.

I have 50 or 60 pages on the [new] novel but I still expect to be a long time at it. It's a theme that requires prayer and fasting to make it get anywhere. I manage to pray but am a very sloppy faster.