Quotes About Perseverance

Dying took commitment. It was easier to go on living incompetently.

Sometimes everyone does their best and things still go wrong.

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

Camba had bent her long neck down to Ingar's level and was muttering in his ear. "Do you feel the breeze on your face?" I heard her say. "That's yours, and worth feeling. Look at those orange clouds. All the trials of a day may be endured if you know there's such a sky at the end of it. Some days I told my heart to wait, just wait, because the sunset would teach me again that my pain was nothing compared with the eternal, circling sky.

The world is surprisingly hard to destroy, whereas saving it can be done a bit at a time.

The world is surprisingly hard to destroy.

The words bounced off her like a stone skipping over the surface of a lake. A stone may skip a long way, but it always sinks eventually.

I think I can show them the path out. I understand now that it's not a question of faith or hope; it exists, and we can find it. It's going to take some time, though.

She still held sorrows, but she was not made of them. Her life was not a tragedy.

No matter how much you wanted to do right in this world, the world would find a way to crush you.

You're stronger than you were when it happened.

That's why this is important: because it's impossible.

I couldn't work out how to get home. Someone moved the mountains.

Sometimes everyone does their best and things still end up wrong.

There is no pain - free path, sweet girl. Choosing is what makes like bearable.

This is our lot. Is that what your getting at? And one must choose to walk on, rather that petulantly sitting on one's rump and pouting?

Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.

It's not the stronger arm that prevails, but the stronger mind.

The world is surprisingly hard to destroy," said Pathka gently. "Whereas saving it can be done a bit at a time. Anyway, don't be afraid. We're walking away from death, not toward it.

Dying took commitment. It was easier to go on living incompetently. What if she put off deciding until tomorrow? She needed time to get the nerve up and work out a foolproof, painless way to do it. Until then, she'd walk on - badly.

I took a break, stretched, tried again, failed, kicked over the music stand (I am not proud of that), and wonder whether I had reached the limits of my musical ability. Maybe I'd never had any. Surely someone with a modicum of talent wouldn't have to work this hard.

It must seem like the world is ending, but wait and see what God will do. He must have something wonderful in mind.

Faith, girl, faith. At the end of the day, that's all we have." Charlotte rested her cheek against her

Whatever doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.