Quotes About Perseverance

Problems are like heavy wind,when they come accept it like a wind kissing you, your skin, which feels a cold touch!

To every parent or grandparent with an aching heart. "With God all things are possible." MATTHEW 19:26

Allison Brennan

deep inside she wondered--feared--what it would take to break her.

She would survive because that was what she did. But the pain of a loss--the grief for something she could never have--would haunt her.

If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.

Growing up shouldn't mean giving up.

Allison Gappa Bottke

Each soul, each person, has to find their own way - learn their own lessons ... It's all those rough bits that make us stronger.

Can't is for pussies.

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...

Dying is totally out of the question.

I might have felt broken, but at the end of it all, I didn't allow myself to break.

You have to know... What you have to know in all of this, through all of this, is that no matter how lost you are in this maze of hell and confusion, that in the end, I promise you, you will be found.

I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take.

Nothing is different here and now than it used to be: The people whom I need most are gone, and the ones who remain do nothing to help me get to where I need to go. Different names, different faces, but the end result is still the same.

You get what you get. You do what you have to do. You stop crying. You stop sleeping. You turn yourself into someone to be reckoned with. You become a straight line, and then you become an arrow.

It gets easier. Eventually you figure out what went wrong and you sort of breathe a sigh of relief that you didn't make a more permanent mistake. And then you just hope that you find someone who won't end up being another misstep.

bit like a mouse. She thought of MaryAnne again and

Without struggle there is no progress.

Don't get it right, get it written.

I always finish what i start

Now I know that, from this point on, we'll be the ones doing the chasing. And Iike it.

So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.