Continuing Quotes

“blessing the boats
(at saint mary’s)

may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back
may you
open your eyes to water
water waving forever
and may you in your innocence
sail through this to that”
― Lucille Clifton

“Endings are thus formally unappealing to me, more than beginning or ending, in life, I enjoy continuing. Continuing is my only focus or concern.”
― Brian D'Ambrosio

“The road to success is longer than you'd like, but shorter than you imagine.”
― Tim Fargo

“Starting is not most people’s problem, staying, continuing and finishing is.”
― Darren Hardy

“Do all things come to an end?
No, they go on forever.”
― Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy

“we are all happy and young and toothless
it is the same as old age
the only thing to do is simply continue
is that simple
yes, it is simple because it is the only thing to do
can you do it
yes, you can because it is the only thing to do”
― Frank O'Hara

“All this at the last I dimly saw, but an autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing. We think we write definitely of those parts of our nature that are dead and therefore beyond change, but that which writes is still changing - still in doubt.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant

“All things come to an end.
No, they go on forever.”
― Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy

“No matter your relationship to the act of continuing, it’s a crucial part of the brave journey of writing and more importantly, the successful completion of your piece.”
― Vindy Teja & Anna Brooke, WRITE! Your Guide to Revealing the Writer Within

“What we bring, finally, into the new day, every day,

Is ourselves. And that’s all we need
To start. That’s everything we require to keep going.

Look back only for as long as you must,
Then go forward into the history you will make.”
― Alberto Ríos, Not Go Away Is My Name

“Remember how you didn’t fall yesterday
even though you thought you would?
Life can be like that all the time if you
let it.”
― Gabrielle Calvocoressi