Perseverance In Night Quotes & Sayings

There is a season for everything under the sun - even when we can't see the sun. — Jared Brock

Little Walter I would've liked to have played with. — Johnny Winter

Where is she? Living or dead, where is she? If, as he folds the handkerchief and carefully puts it up, it were able with an enchanted power to bring before him the place where she found it and the night-landscape near the cottage where it covered the little child, would he descry her there? On the waste where the brick-kilns are burning with a pale blue flare, where the straw-roofs of the wretched huts in which the bricks are made are being scattered by the wind, where the clay and water are hard frozen and the mill in which the gaunt blind horse goes round all day looks like an instrument of human torture - traversing this deserted, blighted spot there is a lonely figure with the sad world to itself, pelted by the snow and driven by the wind, and cast out, it would seem, from all companionship. It is the figure of a woman, too; but it is miserably dressed, and no such clothes ever came through the hall and out at the great door of the Dedlock mansion. — Charles Dickens

...spiritual dryness is not a problem. It only seems a problem because it's such a contrast with the good feelings of the honeymoon stage. ...this night will continue to go on, often getting worse, throughout our life. But if we persevere in our spiritual journey, we will be able to perceive in it positive meaning and learn to understand it. Then we can move beyond it to the freedom that places our feelings in proper perspective. — Monks Of New Skete

The wind is calling in a voice I remember — Chris Abani

Life, like getting an erection, is a spontaneous process which collapses when one tries to force it to happen. — Alan W. Watts

I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith. — Julia Cameron

Stability of heart - commitment to the life of the soul, faithfulness to the community, perseverance in the search for God - is the mooring that holds us fast when the night of the soul is at its deepest dark, and the noontime sun sears the spirit. When — Joan D. Chittister

It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else. — Barack Obama

Make gratitude a habit you indulge in each night. — Pooja Ruprell

Time and again the sun sets like a bedimming curtain before my eyes, taking with it all illumination, warmth, and color. I am overwhelmed by night and the monsters that lurk in shadows of despair. But alas, stars twinkle from afar, shedding the tiniest rays of lighted hope. I am reminded that the sun also rises and that morning's glory shall restore beauty to my world. The realization of this dream is only a matter of waiting out the dreary night. So, I shall persevere. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English. — Hiroyuki Sanada

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools. — Don Henley

To see talented people in roles that others might not see them in, to see how they might fit in the puzzle of the cast, has always been something that I've been good at. I think that if you look at the successes of my films and start to peel them back, there's usually a really smart casting decision that has gone into that success. — Jon Favreau

My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81. — Garry Shandling

Whatever gets you through the night — John Lennon

Gudrun entered the taxi, with the deliberate cold movement of a woman who is well-dressed and contemptuous in her soul. — D.H. Lawrence

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it. — Henry James

Reflect that life, like every other blessing,
Derives its value from its use alone. — Samuel Johnson

Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn. — Steve Goodier

Apparently, the the only way to kill a lion is by rear naked choke. Personally, I'd just kick it in the head. — Bas Rutten

And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed.
Doom with a View — Victoria Laurie

You can't have freedom of religion with a religion that hates freedom! — Celso Cukierkorn