Quotes About Perseverance

You make the wrong choices, you make mistakes, you disappear for a decade, you marry the wrong man. You get hurt. You lose sight of who you are, or of who you want to be, and then you remember, and if you're lucky you have sisters or friends who remind you when you forget your best intentions. You come back to yourself, again and again. You try, and fail, and try again, and fail again. She

He had sacrificed so much -- And now? What if not even all that was enough to quiet that voice....the voice that said, 'You're not worthy, you don't deserve it, nothing you do will ever be enough.

The first time around, she'd done the surgeries, the radiation, the chemotherapy. She'd lost her hair, lost her appetite and her energy, lost her left breast and six months of her life.

Girls today, Judy Pressman had told her. They act like they're the first ones to have done any of this. They've got to reinvent the wheel, and make everything ten times harder than it has to be.

Try and fail and try again.

You try, and fail, and try again, and fail again.

You make the wrong choices, you make mistakes, you disappear for a decade, you marry the wrong man. You get hurt. You lose sight of who you are, or of who you want to be, and then you remember and if you're lucky you have sisters or friends who remind you when you forget your best intentions. You come back to yourself again and again. You try and fail and try again and fail again.

We lose ourselves," she repeated, forming each word with care, "but we find our way back." Wasn't that the story of her life?

You make the wrong choices, you make mistakes, you disappear for a decade, you marry the wrong man. You get hurt. You lose sight of who you are, or who you want to be, and then you remember, and if you're lucky you have sisters or friends who remind you when you forget your best intentions. You come back to yourself, again and again. You try, and fail, and try again, and fail again.

First of all, it's life. You don't win.

Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can and you keep going.

F.E.A.R. Stood for face everything and recover

it was a metaphor for my life, maybe for every woman's life. You fall, you get hurt, you get up again.

A writer wasn't a body, just a byline. My words would be sharp and spiky, punchy and pointed; my stories would be swift and lean, sleek and enviable, moving fast and hitting hard. I would not, I vowed, write like a fat girl.

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Staying married, she'd decided, was a choice; one that had less to do with love and more with forbearance.

Ruby stared down at the Doc Martens she'd started wearing after someone had dropped a prop marble bust on her left foot during a junior-year production of The Play That Goes Wrong and broken two of her toes.

Kau melakukan yang terbaik yang kau bisa. Itu yang dilakukan tiap ibu.

Note to aspiring writers: This is actually not that many rejections in the grand scheme of things. I know published writers whose rejection count is in the triple digits. Never give up. Never, never, never give up.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive… it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

Probably she's dead already. But you couldn't run forever. They had told her that in rehab, too. Eventually you had to stop running, and even the worst failures, the true fuckups and wastes of space, had to try to fix what they had broken. You had to turn and see what you had done.

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through.

Tutte le volte che compare un nonostante tutto - questa è la sua esperienza - le cose si fanno interessanti.

In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy.