Quotes About Perseverance

We are well advised to accept the reality that the great lessons in life often come to us through some form of extreme hardship.

it's better to go into heaven limping than not at all.

But Danny never cursed the darkness that exists in this world. His answer was to let his light shine.

You've been so steady and faithful. Even when I was angry with you or wanted to ignore you, it wasn't possible.

the Christian life consists of one sacrifice after another. When you view those situations as opportunities, not problems, you'll understand what it means to take up your cross and follow the Lord.

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive;That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.Dissolute, damned and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain,This is the Will of the Yukon—Lo, how she makes it plain!

I might read books and paint pictures but I'm not soft

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime should rank among the fine arts.

La struggle for life, che, unos se regeneran y otros caen; así es la vida...

Our history consists of the various ways we find to elude the traps that open endlessly before us.

This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature.

Suddenly drawing courage from nowhere, he decided he was not going to die. Now or never, he thought, and began to swim back up. It seemed to take forever to reach the surface and then he could hardly manage to keep himself afloat, but he did. That afternoon he learnt to swim without arms, like an eel or a snake. In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

O gözler baÅŸar?, mutluluk, doyum isteÄŸi, zafer beklentisiyle bakan gözlerdi, bunlar sadece gelecekte olan ÅŸeylerdir, en iyisi hiç beklememek çünkü hiçbir zaman gelmez beklenenler.

Still I kept walking. I walked and walked. And from time to time I stopped and said to myself: Wake up, Auxilio. Nobody can endure this. And yet I knew I could endure it. So I baptized my right leg Willpower and my left leg Necessity. And I endured.

We had contributed. So had his mother and all the other black mothers who wept at night and saw visions of the gates of hell when they should have been asleep.

Un poeta lo puede soportar todo. Lo que equivale a decir que un hombre lo puede soportar todo. Pero no es verdad: son pocas cosas las que un hombre puede soportar. Soportar de verdad. Un poeta, en cambio, lo puede soportar todo. Con esta convicción crecimos. El primer enunciado es cierto, pero conduce a la ruina, a la locura, a la muerte.

Por supuesto no ganaba dinero. Se fue a vivir a casa de su padre quien lo mantenía, cuando su padre murió, lo mantuvo su madre. Y por supuesto no dejó de escribir y de producir libros enormes e irregulares en donde a veces se percibía un humor tembloroso y brillante. En ocasiones llegó a presumir, años después, de que se mantenía casto desde 1985.

Un poeta lo puede soportar todo. Lo que equivale a decir que un hombre lo puede soportar todo. Pero no es verdade: son pocas las cosas que un hombre puede soportar. Soportar de verdad. Un poeta, en cambio, lo puede soportar todo. Com esta covicción crecimos. El primer enunciado es cierto, pero conduce a la ruina, a la locura, a la muerte.

she knew he was a prisoner and wanted to escape, she knew that love, no matter how mistreated or mutilated, always left room for hope, and that hope was her plan

y la pesadilla me decía: crecerás. dejarás atrás las imágenes del dolor y del laberinto y olvidarás. pero en aquel tiempo crecer hubiera sido un crimen. estoy aquí, dije, con los perros románticos y aquí me voy a quedar.

Esta es mi última transmisión desde el planeta de los monstruos. No me sumergiré nunca más en el mar de mierda de la literatura. En adelante escribiré mis poemas con humildad y trabajaré para no morirme de hambre y no intentaré publicar.