Quotes About Perseverance

My mother lost too much and repaired herself in the only way she was able to repair herself. That in fact she is repairing herself, hour by hour.

We're all trapped in a body with limitations, even the most able-bodied among us! And we're all guided by minds with limitations of their own. You want to know my philosophy? It's this: Our job, regardless of our bodily circumstances is to rise above what holds us down, and to help others do the same.

Life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.

I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.

It's good for you to be a bit uncomfortable from time to time, especially if you're only a few steps away from relief. People forget about the value of adversity.

What she knows now is that no one is ever through with love. No one ever should be.

The heart is a small muscle with tremendous strength;

little disappointments seem like paper cuts; they can bother you more than the big things do.

The important thing is to keep trying. And to apologize when you need to.

Patience is not only a virtue; it is a form of grace

Goodness and mercy may not follow me all the days of my life, but it is here now.

Now it is a war of days: on

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redemptive beauty, I think. Despite her

I stood looking at it, and a thousand things occurred to me about the way that even in bitterness and confusion and anger, my parents love for each other endured. I saw that when I was looking at them, I was only seeing the tip of the iceberg. They belonged to each other more that they belonged to us.

Deep inside is a voice wanting to taunt her, to tell her she is undeserving of it, to not trust it because it won't last, good things never last. Or it tells her she will fuck up and lose everything. But she's gotten better at tuning that voice out.

there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown.

He said there are times we must let sorrow come, learn the lesson and then move on. He said when you think about it, life is just moments. And you have to have faith that the next good moment is coming right along.

For a long time, we have known that sometimes it serves you best simply to work around an obstacle, to make invisible what you are tired of seeing or don't understand.

Go about your business in the best way you know how, and love will find you. You know what they say: It's like a butterfly—you do better letting it land on you than trying to capture it.

progress he'd made. Advance to Boardwalk. He couldn't help it; he started whistling.

I think it was Robert Frost who said that everything he had learned about life could be summed up in three words: it goes on

love came in without knocking and stayed without your permission. And when hard times came between you and the one you loved, you didn't run away.

women of a certain age who still want to fight the good fight, as Gretchen sees it. She has