Quotes About Perseverance

the pain didn't go away, but its sharp edge had dulled and softened like sea glass.

no matter what, always expect suffering, and just keep working hard.

In life, there was so much insult and injury, and she had no choice but to collect what was hers.

And this is something Solomon must understand. We can be deported. We have no motherland. Life is full of things he cannot control so he must adapt. My boy has to survive.

You people work together to make sure nothing ever changes. Sho ga nai. Sho ga nai. That's all I ever hear.

Living every day in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage

The world was cruel with its rations.

It's possible that the college prizes misled me to believe that I could publish a novel immediately after quitting the law. However, the more I studied fiction, the more I realized that writing novels required rigorous discipline and mastery, no different than the study of engineering or classical sculpture. I wanted to get formal training.

Life is full of things he cannot control so he must adapt. My boy has to survive.

She couldn't say this to her son, however, because Noa was someone who had studied, labored, and tried to lift himself out of their street, and he thought all the men who hadn't done so weren't very bright, either. He would not understand. Her son could not feel compassion for those who did not try.

A woman's lot is to suffer,

Every morning, Mozasu and his men tinkered with the machines to fix the outcomes - there could only be a few winners and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones. How could you get angry at the ones who wanted to be in the game? …Pachinko was a foolish game, but life was not.

Reading Group Guide "History has failed us, but no matter." How does the opening line reflect

He felt an overwhelming sense of brokenness in the people. The country had been under the colonial government for over two decades, and no one could see an end in sight. It felt like everyone had given up.

They'd make a tasty broth from stones and bitterness.

Every morning, Mozasu and his men tinkered with the machines to fix the outcomes—there could only be a few winners and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones.

Seeds, blood. How could you fight such hopeless ideas?

Man, life's going to keep pushing you around, but you have to keep playing.

A good man is a decent life, and a bad man is a cursed life—but no matter what, always expect suffering, and just keep working hard.

bad and went to work! Maybe there's

Noa – because he obeyed and did what the Lord asked. Noa – because he believed when it was impossible to do so.

Hoonie used to listen carefully to all the men who brought him news, and he would nod, exhale resolutely, and then get up to take care of the chores. "No matter," he would say, "no matter." Whether China capitulated or avenged itself, the weeds would have to be pulled from the vegetable garden, rope sandals would need to be woven if they were to have shoes, and the thieves who tried often to steal their few chickens had to be kept away.

Every morning, Mozasu and his men tinkered with the machines to fix the outcomes—there could only be a few winners and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones. How could you get angry at the ones who wanted to be in the game?

All her life, Sunja had heard this sentiment from other women, that they must suffer—suffer as a girl, suffer as a wife, suffer as a mother—die suffering. Go-saeng—the word made her sick. What else was there besides this?