From Orient Point

The art of living isn't hard to muster:
Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend.
When someone makes you promises, don't trust her

unless they're in the here and now, and just her
willing largesse free-handed to a friend.
The art of living isn't hard to muster:

groom the old dog, her coat gets back its luster;
take brisk walks so you're hungry at the end.
When someone makes you promises, don't trust her

to know she can afford what they will cost her
to keep until they're kept. Till then, pretend
the art of living isn't hard to muster.

Cooking, eating and drinking are a cluster
of pleasures. Next time, don't go round the bend
when someone makes you promises. Don't trust her

past where you'd trust yourself, and don't adjust her
words to mean more to you than she'd intend.
The art of living isn't hard to muster.

You never had her, so you haven't lost her
like spare house keys. Whatever she opens,
when someone makes you promises, don't. Trust your
art; go on living: that's not hard to muster.

Marilyn Hacker

Mots clés strength love loss will mourning trust perseverance grief betrayal fatalism promises



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A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

Mark Twain

Mots clés horse determination perseverance bites spirited



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Just do your best," Mom said. "You can't do any better than your best.

Kim Wayans

Mots clés perseverance amy-hodgepodge kevin-knotts kim-wayans



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Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving.

Jayleigh Cape

Mots clés life perseverance challenge hardship overcome jayleigh-cape



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No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!

John Calvin

Mots clés success christianity perseverance failure progess



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Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!

T.F. Hodge

Mots clés goals winning determination perseverance quotes



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I don't believe in failure. I'm perseverant - I believe in failing.

Bauvard

Mots clés humor persistence funny perseverance failure



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A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.

David McGee

Mots clés perseverance



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Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

Criss Jami

Mots clés success happiness safety risk-taking perseverance compromise stability progression running rational discontentment



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In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

Criss Jami

Mots clés originality faith risk genius determination foolish illusion perseverance fool misunderstood taking-risks brilliance first-impression mistaken geniuses glance mistaken-identity wheels



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