#severance

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#dreams

Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up. ↗

— Deng Ming-Dao

#fate #perseverance #taoism #wrestling #harmony

All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#perseverance #nothing

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#perseverance #enemy

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#perseverance #day

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#progress #thoughtful #thought

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#fearlessness #pain #perseverance #play

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#perseverance #failure

Giving up is the only sure way to fail. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#perseverance #failure

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#success #failure