Quotes About Perseverance

Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day

When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways. I have no such consolation. This is why I cling so hard. This is why this is so hard.

They beat the shit out of me. But you know what? I didn't need that shit inside of me. I'm glad it's gone.

It is always an act of desperation, and I keep asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.

better , adj. and adv. Will it ever get better? It better. Will it ever get better? It better. Will it ever get better? It better.

I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.

Forget about the ones who set you up to see you fall.

We know what it's like to need to hold on. We hold on to you. Which is to say, we hold on to life.

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

As that famous homosexual Winston Churchill once said, if you find yourself heartbroken, keep walking.

The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

That lasting things do, in fact, last.

Oh, honey, she says when I'm done with my wallowing, it's like my grandma used to say: Just when you think life's got you in a gutter, a tornado will come along and destroy your house. And then you rebuild? I ask. Well, she never mentioned that part, but I suppose it could happen. I am not cheered up.

The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

So there I was, hovering above everything I knew. I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.

I realize that two years is not a long time. I realize that even ten years is not a long time. But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last.

Slowly would be better than not at all.

Easy things are worthless, Laurie says. and I realzie he's talking to both Sean and me. It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.

i want him to give up, no. no, i don't.

So we must buck up, put on a kind face, and get on with it.

Every fight for survival is really a fight to return to the inconsequential concerns of the mundane.

Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.

But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last.

There is nothing more painful than watching someone give up on you.