Posts Tagged ‘tenacity’

Example of true Courage

Thursday, April 12th, 2018

True courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Doesn't that look like an example of true courage? It happens every spring. www.walled-in-berlin.com

Doesn’t that look like an example of true courage? It happens every spring. www.walled-in-berlin.com

 

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com Walled-In is my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War.

 

Perseverance Drives Success

Thursday, February 8th, 2018

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

— General George S. Patton

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. www.walled-in-berlin.com

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. www.walled-in-berlin.com

 

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com Walled-In is my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War.

 

The stonecutters tenacity

Monday, August 4th, 2014

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

–Jacob A. Riis

 

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on my home page and feel free to follow my blog about anything German: historic and current events, people, places and food.

Walled-In is my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War. Juxtaposing the events that engulfed Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, the Berlin Wall and Kennedy’s Berlin visit with the struggle against my equally insurmountable parental walls, Walled-In is about freedom vs. conformity, conflict vs. harmony, domination vs. submission, loyalty vs. betrayal.