Persevere like a seed; even when people try to bury you, flourish.
Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my late indisposition, I must yet confess that the hill of science, like that of virtue, is in some instan...
Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are.
If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no long...
Surviving is good, but overcoming is better.
You can chase a bird from your porch, but you can not take away its ability to fly.
Within the beautiful struggle of a cocoon all butterflies are made.
Patient is a persistent act.
We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put into this world to go the path of...
Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last. You have to fight the people who say it can never be done. You have to fight the institutions that put up...
He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination that would not recognize defeat, and kept on fighting even wh...
Suddenly I heard Virginia’s voice calling to me from the sitting room window: Hitler is making a speech. I shouted back, I shan’t come. I’m planting iris and they will be flowering long after he is de...
Marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the r...