Never tell her that something is impossible, because she’ll kill herself proving you wrong.

But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man’s mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs...

This jeweled coast does not shine for its gems are coated with grit.

I hope one daysomebody loves youso muchthat they see violetsin the bags under your eyes,sunsets in the downward archof your lipsthat they recognize youas something green,something fresh and still growingeven if sometimesyou are growing sidewaysthat...

The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.

Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit. What’s good seems lost and gone forever. This is a story about the...

Because any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy. But beyond that it is entirely up to you. You’ve got to do for...

Chamara. What is the word that comes closest to it? Soo-Ja wondered. To stand it, to bear it, to grit your teeth and not cry out? To hold on, to wait until the worst is...

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy them both, they are part of the ride. The key is to not...

There’s a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in pursuit of a goal, to sacrifice for the sake of...

It doesn’t matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry — if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how to keep on working until the work...

Long past the moment when her neck begins to stiffen and ache, she continues to stare into the darkness, even though none of the human secrets she needs to know are to be found in...