Perseverance...
Nothing has been achieved without perseverance. There are simply somethings that require time and energy, but through all of the difficulty knowing that you accomplished it is worth the time.
"You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration."
James Allen
"Sometimes you need to look reality in the eye and deny it."
Garrison Keillor
"Our greatest problems in life come, not so much from the situations we confront, so from our doubts about our ability to handle them."
Susan Taylor
"People are like stained windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." *
"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
Stanley Lindquist
"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
Teddy Roosevelt
"A new life will come forth from the womb of darkness."
Na'im Akbar
"Its not what you are that holds you back, It's what you think you're not."
Denis Waitly
"The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty."
Chuck Swindol
Sometimes even the sun and moon share the same sky. *
"In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given the strength to endure."
Heart Warrior Chosa
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.
Henry Van Dike
It does not matter how slowly you go,
so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
If something doesn't come up the way you want,
you have to forge ahead.
Clint Eastwood
"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."
Mother Teresa
"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
Dolly Parton