Quotes About Perseverance

Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

An author is a writer who didn't give up.

I don't understand how you manage to love a mob of birds that has just tried to kill you." "Oh, Fletch, you don't love that! You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love. It's fun, when you get the knack of it.

If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

In half a century of challenge and learning and trial-and-error, each of us had struggled from hard times to a present lovely beyond our dreams.

Fletcher Lynd Seagull was still quite young, but already he knew that no bird had ever been so harshly treated by any Flock, or with so much injustice.

This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.

Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.

WE MUST HONOR our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down.  It's their duty to ridicule us, it's their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different!  And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card games philosophical: Ah, well, we can't toast 'em all . . .

Nemalonumai nÄ—ra pats blogiausias dalykas, kuris mums gali atsitikti. Baisiausia yra, kai mums NIEKO neatsitinka!

What'll be your biography? At that point, life seemed pretty bleak. Then (insert  your name) did a surprising thing...

Ed era l'ora, sì di andare a casa. Abbracciò con un ultimo sguardo il suo cielo, i magnifici campi del cielo, dove aveva imparato molte cose. «Sono pronto» disse alfine. E il gabbiano Jonathan Livingston fece prua verso l'alto, scortato da quei due splendidi uccelli, e scomparvero insieme nella notte.

Mutlu ve baÅŸar?l? insanlar?n çoÄŸu hayat?nda bir kez intihar etmeyi düÅŸünmüÅŸ ve etmemeye karar vermiÅŸtir.

Hata diye bir ÅŸey yoktur. Kendi üzerinize çektiÄŸiniz olaylar, ne kadar sevimsiz olurlarsa olsunlar, öÄŸrenmeniz gerekeni öÄŸrenebilmeniz için gereklidir. Nas?l bir ad?m atarsan?z at?n, gitmeyi seçtiÄŸiniz yere ulaÅŸman?z için o ad?m?n gerekli olduÄŸunu unutmay?n.

Åžu an olduÄŸunuz kiÅŸi olabilmek için hayat?n?z? adad?n?z. Buna deÄŸdi mi?

Juo didesniais šviesuoliais tampame, juo sunkiau b?na prie m?s? pritapti. Kuo daugiau išmokstame, tuo labiau turime tik?tis likti vieni.

Baz? duraklara ulaÅŸt?ysan?z size oralardan iniÅŸ yoktur, ama kanatlar?n?z? aç?n ve onlar?n da ötesine uçun.

Ne kadar ehil ve lay?k olursan?z olun, kendiniz için o hayali kurmad?kça ve onu gerçekleÅŸtirmenize izin vermedikçe asla daha iyi bir hayata ulaÅŸamazs?n?z.

Hayalleri paramparça eden tek ÅŸey, ödün vermektir.

A professional writer is an amateur who never gave up.

Mes esame tiltas per amžinyb?, nusidriekiantis viršum j?ros: patrak?liškai ieškantys malonum?, smagiai tyrin?jantys paslaptis, pasirenkantys nelaimes, triumf?, išm?ginimus, ne?tik?tinus sutapimus, v?l ir v?l iš naujo išbandantys save ir besimokantys myl?ti, myl?ti, MYL?TI!

It wasn't long before Jonathan Gull was off by himself again, far out at sea, hungry, happy, learning.

Un escritor profesional es un amateur que no se rinde