Quotes About Perseverance

And in his weariness, only one word came to Jonathan, like a prayer. Tommy, he thought, invoking what was good and real. Tommy. The word for love in his world right now. Tommy. And he supposed the word that occurred to you in your darkest moments...well, that word meant love. That was perhaps how you knew. And perhaps that was the purpose of dark moments.

Fallen woman. The term made a sort of poetic sense. Once the fall started, it seemed it never stopped.

The way to achieve the impossible is to simply do it as if it were the most possible thing in the world.

She didn't want to need anything, particularly something—or someone—she quite simply couldn't have. Too much had been taken from her already, and she'd had enough of accommodating pain, of straightening her spine, of soldiering on

I had to fight so hard not to cry.

Trouble follows you like a shadow, Gillian. You're prone to injuries. I swear to God, if a tree decided to fall right now, it would find your head to land on. Oh, for heaven's sake, she muttered. I'll admit that I have had a run of bad fortune, but— He wouldn't let her continue. A run of bad fortune? Since I've known you, you've been beaten, stabbed and now shot with an arrow. If this keeps up, you'll be dead in another month

When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it?

much strength and endurance did she have stored inside her? He hoped to God she had enough to see this nightmare through.

Nathan had just announced that come hell or high water,he was going to fix his flower.He just needed time to find out how.

The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. …" OLD TESTAMENT, ECCLESLASTES, 4:2

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

The plan was changed now, whether he liked it or not, for he knew with a certainty that both amazed and infuriated him, that he'd never let Madelyne go.

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It's no small matter to cross an ocean,Chagall said. More can be lost than canvas and paint. An artist must bear witness, Monsieur Fry. He cannot turn away, even if he wished to. An artist cannot bear witness if he's dead.

Life, oblivious to his grief, continued

Everything else still unknown. Somehow you have to do it. Somehow you have to survive.

They learned that some people are born luckier than others and that things in this world do not always go as you plan. STILL

One of us continues to swim back and forth in her lane long after everyone else has gotten out, and when we call out her name - Alice, time's up! - the lifeguard lifts his hand and says, quietly, One more lap.

The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that simple is not exactly the same as easy.

but an idea had presented itself to him, knocking at his brain like a nighttime traveler, and instead of shutting the door in its face, Browles built it a fire, he drew a chair for it up to the hearth and spent half a decade trying to decipher and then convey what it struggled to tell him. He was patient and industrious and quietly determined. Buffeted by setbacks and rejection and his own limitations, he persevered.

She went on because there was no going back.

Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult.

Some broken things you can't mend. Some you have to put together very slowly piece by fragile piece, waiting until the last bit of work is strong enough before you try the next. It takes a lot of patience.