Quotes About Perseverance

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.

God helps those who help themselves.

No problem too large, no creature too small.

Time dribbles through our fingers while we wait.

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

For what you can fix, there are a hundred remedies. For what cannot be cured, not even words will do.

What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.

In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

Never look back, that's what she's told herself. Don't think about swans or being alone in the dark. Don't think of storms, or lightning and thunder, or the true love you won't ever have. Life is brushing your teeth and making breakfast for your children and not thinking about things, and as it turns out, Sally is first-rate at all of this. She gets things done and done on time.

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

The more you feel, the stronger you are.

Read as many books as you can. Always choose courage

My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.

They say the truest beauty is in the harshest land and that God can be found there by those with open eyes.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

If there be a cure, seek till you find it. If there be none, never mind it.