Perseverating Quotes & Sayings

Love's a powerful fucking thing when it tames rage, tames hate, and everything else in between. — Nicole Snow

Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book. — Henning Mankell

I think, in many people's minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would've been OK. — Jimmy Carter

In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm. There is a tendency to fall into being weakened by perseverating on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance. — Gina Barreca

As it was, we all acted alone, we were caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But that doesn't mean that we are alone. — Hans Fallada

Disappointments are often my greatest motivation. — Katie Kiesler

If you aren't ready, you spend your whole life perseverating on that one situation, getting it wrong time and again. I like to think I am a woman who learns her lesson, but the trick is that you can only ever understand your life backwards, but you live it forward. — Valentine Glass