Quotes About Perseverance

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

This is the way brown people have to fight, my grandfather says. You can't just put your fist up. You have to insist on something gently. Walk toward a thing slowly. But be ready to die, my grandfather says, for what is right. Be ready to die, my grandfather says, for everything you believe in.

what is bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I didn't just appear one day. I didn't just wake up and know how to write my name. I keep writing, knowing now that I was a long time coming.

first book There are seven of them, haikus mostly but rhyming ones, too. Not enough for a real book until I cut each page into a small square staple the squares together, write one poem on each page. Butterflies by Jacqueline Woodson on the front. The butterfly book complete now.

But damn, am I hella tired, Iris. Hella tired.

she said she was going to live-that tomorrow wasn't guaranteed.

Each day, her sore and swollen body pressed against a hard wind blowing her own eyes closed. At night she went in and out of fitful sleeps, woke in the dark, sweaty and struggling for air. Where had the air gone?

Let's say it's rain--the people who got problems with us being together--let's call them and their problems rain." Ellie nodded. "Okay, they're rain." She smiled. "So now what?" "So it's not always raining, is it? But when it's not raining, we know the rain isn't gone forever.

So after the tears were all cried out, it was time to move on and figure out what to do with all that was coming at me.

Everyone yearns for heaven, and nothing binds you to the hope of eternal life like that kind of defeat on earth.

What I learned at the end of my first week back at work after the holiday break was how rough at least some of that road would be. Keith Fu, my department chair, dropped by my office. He brought me a latte. I'd just found a fortune cookie in my pocket and I showed it to Keith. It said, I cannot help you. I am only a cookie.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Spiritual combat is as brutal as men's battle!"74

Don't be afraid of your dreams.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Ainsi le raisonnement avance-t-il droit sur ses deux pieds boiteux

De fapt, am descoperit ?i am ?tiut foarte devreme c? trebuie s? te ba?i tot timpul. Pe toate fronturile vie?ii, pe toate mizele existen?ei, c?ci nimic nu este câ?tigat dinainte, nimic nu este dat, nimic nu e u?or. A?a e via?a, s?racii nu au niciodat? dreptate, se spunea în familie. Nu trebuie s? te la?i p?c?lit, ad?ugau vecinii. Trebuie s? ar??i c? e?ti b?rbat, supralicitau prietenii mei.

Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante.

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

The man who does only as much as is needed will only get that much.

Incredible things can be done simply because we are committed that we want it to happen, that's all.

I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

así es la vida, guapo. uno sueña con ser feliz, pero sólo se da de cabezazos en la pared. yo sigo soñando, y todavía te quiero y te digo gracias por las pocas veces que me amaste y me hiciste sentir tuyo.