Quotes About Perseverance

I am feeling much better now. I am fairly certain it was your letters that kept me alive.

Usually the hard stuff you're forced to do makes you learn a lot.

You want people to take it seriously, but most people are still going to act like it's just some dumb thing you're doing and ask you about it in the way people do when they don't think you're ever going to finish what you started.

Are you ready for the cold harsh reality about the real world? It's simple. You can't say things like, "I can't," "I don't know," or "I haven't figured it out." Because

Bull. Look, sometimes certain kinds of pain bring important lessons. Those lessons harden you, prepare you for your life and the only way to learn them, the only way to be a better, stronger and yes, harder person to survive the world outside is to learn those lessons first hand. Pain forges strength.

You know, El, you're so much more than the time you were with Bill and the attack. You took something shitty and you made a new future. Most people don't do that. They hang on forever. It's easy to stay in that pit of despair. Or let it be your excuse for not moving on.

Love takes work. Oh sure, you can love someone without trying. But when things get rough, if you don't love someone right down to your toes, it's way too easy to up and leave when they muck things up.

The moral of the story isn't don't ever be afraid. Or even don't screw up. It's that screwing up isn't the end of the world.

I definitely think there are times -- setbacks -- where it's dark while you're going through it, but eventually you figure out why you had to survive that dark time.

Everything worth having is worth working for, don't you think?

These words of prayer are among the most basic words Dr. Gatewood knows. When he has forgotten everything else, those words are the words he will have. Those words have formed his heart, and—regardless of what he feels or remembers on any particular morning—they continue to form his heart still.

When you find that God is absent, you do many things. You temporize, for a while. You buy a new prayer book, hoping that perhaps some Celtic blessings might do the trick.

It's not all about mountaintops. Mostly it's about training so that you'll know the mountaintop for what it is when you get there.

The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I remember, when I'm bored with Him, and antsy, and sick of brushing my teeth next to the same god every morning, I hope I remember not to leave Him. I am not so worried that He will leave me. The Bible, after all, is full of stories about God sticking with His Bride, no matter how stiff-necked and prideful and unfaithful she may be.

Life really does go on. That's what I've learned. It goes.

Like wading through water; That hard, that slow.

Love isn't easy but you should fight for it

I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on. --Robert Browning

Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?

Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.

Lauren Myracle

Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail shall close the door of the mighty Starbucks.

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Lauren Myracle