Quotes About Perseverance

After bracken is picked nine times, it will sprout again. The saying Fall down eight times, stand up nine reminds us of this and symbolizes the wish for the dead to pave the way for future generations

All women on earth-and men too, for that matter-hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, and gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

Every woman who goes into the sea carries a coffin on her back. In this world, in the undersea world, we tow the burdens of this hard life." Then I added a few words of my own. "Please be careful today and every day.

The typhoon that hit us wasn't the worst we'd ever experienced, but we were all so much weaker in our bodies and minds that the impact was just one more remorseless blow.

Together, come what may.

Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.

You can't squeeze blood from a stone. You can try, but you do all the bleeding.

it was the dawn of a new day that Birdie prized. It was God's little reminder that no matter how dark the night, the sun always rises.

The reward for all high performance must be sought within itself or sought in vain.

Pull yourself together, Selena, she chided. Fix this. End this. Write a better headline.

The knowledge. Of life and all its pain, the decision to stick around and do better. That's what heroism is, you know?

Anything you fight against gets stronger.

Some things don't leave us. We just learn to live with them better.

The world is in chaos. It's not about that. The world has always been on fire. Now, it might not be about saving it, as much as it is about helping each other through it all. Holding each other up, helping, fixing, working together, loving, forgiving. You don't get to just leave, just make a space and hide there waiting for everything dark and frightening to go away.

worked. But she could live with it. "So

Where I train we smack our palms and knuckles against cinderblocks. This action creates tiny fissures in the bones. When those fissures heal, the bone is stronger. I can put the blade of my palm through a two-by-four.

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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

Not that she didn't about fighting losing battles.

She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets.

More clench than butt cheeks.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. William Shakespeare.

How much torture will I endure in the name of love?

Mrs. Lot was a sandwich-generation woman, not sure what life might hold for her-scared of going forward, frightened of going back.