Quotes About Perseverance

The things that go wrong are rarely the things you,ve thought to worry about.

but promise can disappear if you leave it to flounder

was in this way that the mother discovered that she still had the will to live, even now, and she was usually the first one to help when the cottage was rebuilt.

Her heart, though broken, still beat.

In her opinion, everything goes wrong if you give it enough time.

what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start. Whether you are mortal or not, you go on, even if sorrow nags

This cannot harm you on this day. When you walk, you walk away. When you return, all your enemies will burn.

I wondered if damaged people ever got over what damaged them.

Each time she sees it she is reminded of how some things are never over they stay with you until they are a part of you, like it or not

They might curse you, even despise you for doing so, but it took strong measures to ensure that a boy lived long enough to become a man.

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 see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still.

out from under the far side of the table

Close your eyes and listen, then walk twenty paces farther than you thought necessary. Just when you're certain you've lost your way completely, you'll be there. Open your eyes.

A RED MAP ISN'T EASY TO FOLLOW. ANY DOCUMENT MADE of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done.

Despite the curse, despite the losses you might endure, she knew now that love was the only thing that lasted. It was inside you and with you for all eternity.

Over the years I had grown attached to it, as men grow attached to their miseries and their burdens.

never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own.

Life was worth living, no matter what fate might bring.

Alice Hoffman

Whether you are mortal or not, you go on, even if sorrow nags at you.

life. She was only a girl and exhausted from her journey, but she would do as she must in order to survive.

In books, no one helped a girl who didn't help herself and every fairy tale ended with the same lessons. Trick your enemy, do what you must, believe in enchantments, save yourself.

All the same, some things stay with you forever. You are a different person now. You know it and I know it. You're not the same. You're a survivor. Congratulations.

From then on, I didn't cry when I was disappointed. I just stored up my hurts, as if they were a tower made of fallen stars, invisible to most people, but brightly burning inside of me.