Quotes About Perseverance

She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.

I realize i do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds. I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary,any day. I believe that having something to hope for-even if its just a better tomorrow-is the most powerful drug on this planet.

Coal, with time and heat and pressure, will always become a diamond. But if you were freezing to death, which would you consider the gem?

I don't get to rewrite my story; I just have to stumble to the end of it.

Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.

You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you. Was there a next time? Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

You get through it, you just never get over it

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

The human capacity for burden is like a bamboo - far more flexible than youd ever believe at first glance.

When you can't see light at the end of the tunnel, it's hard to remember to keep going.

Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

you never forget your first fall.

There is a reason people say being a mother is the hardest job in the world: You do not sleep and you do not get vacation time. You do not leave your work on your desk at the end of the day. Your briefcase is your heart, and you are rifling through it constantly. Your office is as wide as the world, and your punch card is measured not in hours but in a lifetime.

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

Sometimes, to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least. - Julia Romano