Quotes About Perseverance

But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without something buoying them up.

Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.

Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?

A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.

Elizabeth Wein

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and its compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed.

I don't mean to sound like a spoiled brat. I know that into every sunny life a little rain must fall and all that, but in my case, the crisis-level hysteria is an all-too-recurring theme. The voices inside my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence And I've been on these goddamn pills for years.

I don't much like my life, but for some dumb reason, I want to be alive, because sooner or later, I figure it will work out.

I am a monotheist. I am in it for life. I am in everything for life. If you don't stop me, I will not stop myself. I have the kind of faith that you can only have if you have talked your way out of trouble all along.

No man is going to solve my problems, no one can rescue me, because I am too sick.

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.

In spite of the horror, in spite of the tragedy, in spite of the weeks of sleepless nights, I'm finally alive. I'm not pretending. I feel real. I'm not playing charades anymore. I wouldn't go back to the way I was for anything. I'm really like a different person. I'm where I am, and I'm making the most of it. I know I'm courageous now. I found out I had it in me to face this. — Barbara

Be careful to know yourself when the time comes," he warned the Little King. "The man who fails the test will run for the rest of his life, with the beast still in his heart.

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

I'll never forget a story I heard years ago about a whirling dervish of a girl with ADHD, nine years old. Her teacher proposed a deal, a reward for meeting a behavioral goal. If the girl could "be good" for three weeks, the teacher would buy her an ice cream cone. The girl reported to her therapist: "Is she kidding? I can't 'be good' for three hours, let alone three weeks. And besides, I don't like ice cream.

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.

God does work through hurt. God works in the midst of all things.

One man alone can give up and subside into the cold and die, far more easily than two together, who will both brace and provoke each other, wrangle and support, give each other warmth and challenge each other's endurance. (The Virgin in the Ice, p. 87 of 200)

When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.

notwithstanding

Ellis Peters