Quotes About Perseverance

does it ever get easier? is there an end to these questions? do you have any answers? will you say them to me? can you stop this unraveling? will you bring me your closure? or am I the only one who sees anymore? who sees . . . who sees . . . who sees?

I fear you may have outmatched me, because now I find these words have nowhere to go. It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show that you tried unless you end up succeeding.

Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.

there was still the thrill of those opening credits that carried us through the harder times, that sustained our faith in a city that often didn't show much faith in us.

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends

all i wanted was one fucking break, one idiotic good thing, and that was clearly too much to ask for, too much to want.

I don't believe in a small break. I feel a break is a break, and if it starts small, it only gets wider. So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

I think we endure the banal as a way of skirting around the bane.

Because this is only going to get worse," she said. "So we must buck up, put on a kind face, and get on with it." "Get on with what?" "Life. In all its bittersweet glory.

the sadness will ebb the trouble is the time it might take

That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through all the silent parts.

Please tell me this pity party ends early. Or at least serves cake.

i'm sure it's going to be a total disaster. but i guess the point is that i'm going to do it anyway.

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own. It relies on us to the conquering on its behalf.

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on its own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.

There's been a lot of things said about me Since that awful day I'm not the person that I used to be And that I'll never be the same That's true - no doubt But I know more now what life is about I laugh louder Cry harder Take less time to make up my mind and I Think smarter Go slower I know what I want And what I don't I'll be better than I've ever been

It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

They kept fighting, even after we were gone. Or especially because we were gone. They kept fighting for us. We are gone and maybe our spirits are gone too, as the ones who knew us stop remembering us so often, or come to join us. But the spirit of that strengh it carries through.

It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.

a little recognition of the escapes we made, of the finish line we crossed, only to find so many other finish lines waiting after it.

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.

You're still a pinless grenade over the world not being perfect. no, I am a pinless grenade over the world being cruel but every time I'm proven wrong, that pin goes in a little more.

I am trying not to think of endings.

I fear you may have outmatched me, because now I find these words have nowhere to go. It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show that you tried unless you end up succeeding.