“As long as we persevere, we shall succeed in any endeavour.”— Lailah Gifty Akita Related Quotes “I struggle to discover what these silent sons of mine want, but words have always failed me. They are sullen even as they tell me they are okay. I know they are lying but there is nothing I can do.”— Jinat Rehana Begum “As long as you choose to persist and persevere, one day you would gladly look back and be very proud that you never gave up.”— don-t-give-up “exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.”— Edward Said