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"I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
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"In order to fulfil our life mission we also need to develop perseverance."
"Life is a personal race. Run the race of life with all endurance."
"Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory."
"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."
"A man going straight towards his goals overcomes difficulties and obstacles in his paths, and turns them into benefits."
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
"The gospel of the kingdom talks about perseverance."
"Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest."
"You can strive in life with courage, faith and hope."
"One is to cross this ocean in the form of obstinacy. We are standing on this side of obstinacy and we have to go to the other side. If someone becomes instrumental in removing your obstinacy; do not be disturbed about it, consider him to be extremely beneficial and undergo that experience with equanimity."
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"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
"I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
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