Quotes About Perseverance

What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be ruthless. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping like sand, through our fingers.

He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run clear out of his skin and into the arms of his wife, to whom he had proved, once and for all, the superiority of his love. Some migrants are happy to depart.

Who hopes for an hour hopes for eternity. The world in an hour. What follows is unseen.

and here is Nussie's husband, Ismail the lawyer, who has learned an important lesson from his son's forcep-birth: 'Nothing comes out right in life,' he tells his duck of a wife, 'unless it's forced out.

DüÅŸünce fazlas?yla ac? vermeye baÅŸlad???nda eylem en güzel devad?r.

It was the resilience in human beings that represented their best chance of survival, their ability to look the unimaginable, the unconscionable, the unprecedented in the eye.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

it feels as if half your life is a sort of struggle toward the sunlight. Then you get five minutes in the sun and after that you're dragged down into the darkness again

What can't be cured must be endured.

his way of walking toward closed doors without slowing down, knowing they would open for him;

Kaderini kucakla dedi, Sana üzüntü verenden keyif al. Kaçmak istediÄŸin ÅŸeye doÄŸru dön ve bütün kalbinle ona koÅŸ. TalihsizliÄŸini yaln?z ona dönüÅŸerek aÅŸabilirsin.

Siz olsan?z, s?n?rlar?n karanl?k taraf?na sürgün edildiÄŸinizde karanl??? ayd?nl??a çevirmeye çal??maz m?yd?n?z?

Yalan iÅŸi bitince çürüyüp gidecek; Oysa gerçek büyüktür ve galip gelecek, zaferine ald?ran olsa da olmasa da.

Su vida había sido una sucesión de actos de voluntad, pero a veces flaqueaba y se hundía

Unwilling wholly to abandon the project for which his wife had died, unable to maintain any longer the absolute belief which the enterprise required, Muhammad Din entered the station wagon of scepticism.

It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.

Sometimes it is necessary to touch bottom in order to know which way is up; to go a long distance down the wrong road before you know the right way

Life is a shit sandwich. The more bread you've got, the less shit you eat.

I am being flayed,' he told her in his dream. 'It is my holy calling. We will never gain our humanity until we lose our skins.

So, now that Quichotte was in full possession of his senses, there were things he needed to say. 'My quest for you', he told Miss Salma R, 'has not been for you alone, but also for my own compromised goodness and virtue. I see it now. By attaining you - the impossible! - I thought it might validate my life. By becoming worthy of you I might feel worthy of being myself'.

So it's you again; well, why not? Nothing ever seems to go away.

Life damages the living.

Giderken koÅŸullar ne kadar ac? olursa olsun, sonunda dönebildiÄŸiniz yer evinizdir.

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought. I have to go back soon, she told herself, I need to reclaim it or it will be gone, I will be gone from it, and nobody will mourn my loss. She thought about Wile E. Coyote rushing out over the chasm and not falling until he looked down. That's me, her weak voice thought, and then her strong voice answered, Then don't look down.