Quotes About Perseverance

No such thing as the world becoming an easy place to save your soul in.

Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.

Este trigo hundirá sus vigorosas raíces en la tierra, soportará el frío, el viento y la nieve, y crecerá con fuerza apuntando al cielo. Con el tiempo, terminará coronándose de una espléndida espiga. Aprended del trigo, hijos míos.

today, I will let my yes be my yes, my no be my no and today my I do my I do. I vow that at times I will fail you. I vow that at times I will fall short, but in failures and shortcomings, I won't tap out, I won't give up. I vow… not to buy into false romanticism, saying things like, "you complete me," because, in reality, you don't.

every time she fell he picked her up with no thank you required.

Days will get dark in this life. There will be good days and hard times. But be STILL and know that God is God.

I'm not going anywhere, not without Chloe. Derek

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

This is the first adventure I've survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair? I'd call this progress. ~Jaime Vegas

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.

It's a road, Corey said, pointing. A dirt road, Hayley muttered. So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?

He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.

in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out.

How long could we do this before you started bitching? Simon said as we turned down another street of apartment buildings. What? We've been walking for two days now, and you haven't complained once. It's damned annoying, you know. I looked at him. If you don't complain, then I can't complain. Not without sounding like a whiny little snot.

No life is easy. It's just a different kind of hard.

I don't care if I get one at all. Just as long as I keep getting anniversaries.

I spend the day running on a treadmill while madly juggling a half dozen grenades. It's a solid day of absolutely zero progress, and the best I can say, at the end of it, is that nothing exploded.

I could mentally lift the vision wholesale and stick it into the already overflowing "crazy shit I'll deal with later" box in my brain.

Sometimes, wanting to impress is what keeps us moving when all we really want to do is curl up in a fetal position and whimper.

you bend over backward to keep

wasting what little breath he did have laughing at himself. Because sometimes, that's all you could do. You make a fucking stupid mistake, and you could only call yourself an idiot and then snap back before you screwed up again.

There'd been months when hunger seemed to be the driving force in his life.

Now I stood at the base of a tree and thought, "I can't do this." I remembered last night's climb, the grief and the loneliness. Here on the ground, I could keep that at bay. But up there… Rafe was up there. Maybe he always would be.