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"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
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"Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position."
"Be patient, persistent and above all, believe."
"Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end."
"Fleet kept running, Kaladin growled, getting back under Elhokar's arm."What?"He couldn't win, but he kept running. And when the storm caught him, it didn't matter that he'd died, because he'd run for all he had."Sure. All right. The king sounded groggy, though Kaladin couldn't tell if it was the alcohol or the blood loss."We all die in the end, you see, Kaladin said. "So I guess what truly matters is just how well you've run. And Elhokar, you've kept running since your father was killed, even if you screw up all the storming time."Thank you? the king said, drowsy."
"Rise flexibly, courageously and perseveringly upon the challenges and trials in our life. Beneath the depth of fresh wounds, heavy cross and years of scars, is our wise silent mind, a beating faithful heart with understanding and patience matched with a humble soul who walks with hope towards charity, kindness, peace and harmony."
"Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?"
"This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up."
"For me at least there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until by and by out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result."
"Nothing ever stays the same. Just because things aren't good now doesn't mean they will be that way forever....Never quit."
"Perseverance n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success."
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"But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better and do they not develop us more than if we kept systematically away from emotions?"
"In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically."
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
"Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!"
"One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it."
"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning."
"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."
"What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do."
"It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation-of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things-the thought of God comes into one's mind."
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