--- title: "8 Keeping The Faith Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 Keeping The Faith quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Keeping The Faith sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12f/rebecca-woolf-99549_inspirational_advice-to-friends-advice-to-fellow-mothe_192577.jpg" --- > [“Advice to friends. Advice to fellow mothers in the same boat. "How do you do it all?" Crack a joke. Make it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-woolf/advice-to-friends-advice-to-fellow-mothers-in-the-same-boat-how-do/) [Rebecca Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-woolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12f/rebecca-woolf-99549_inspirational_advice-to-friends-advice-to-fellow-mothe_192577.jpg) > [ For Keeping the Faith, I looked at \[George \] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-norton/for-keeping-the-faith-i-looked-at-george-cukor-s-old-films-like-the/) [Edward Norton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-norton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d16/edward-norton-2203_critique_for-keeping-the-faith-i-looked-at-george_670018.jpg) > [My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-r-r-tolkien-2/my-own-dear-mother-was-a-martyr-indeed-and-it-is-not-to-everybody/) [J. R. R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-r-r-tolkien-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/918/j-r-r-tolkien-2-1316_dear_my-own-dear-mother-was-a-martyr-indeed-a_1014568.png) > [A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/a-whole-lot-of-us-believers-of-all-different-religions-are-ready-to/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a2/anne-lamott-188_believer_a-whole-lot-of-us-believers-of-all-diffe_1780300.png) > [A lot of artists give up because it's just too damn hard to go on making art in a culture that by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cheryl-strayed/a-lot-of-artists-give-up-because-it-s-just-too-damn-hard-to-go-on/) [Cheryl Strayed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cheryl-strayed/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/502/cheryl-strayed-605_abundance_a-lot-of-artists-give-up-because-it-s-ju_2430941.jpg) > [“Everything in Life happens in its own time and at its own pace. When you understand this truth about Life, you will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avis-viswanathan/everything-in-life-happens-in-its-own-time-and-at-its-own-pace-when/) [AVIS Viswanathan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avis-viswanathan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba7/avis-viswanathan-72998_acceptance_everything-in-life-happens-in-its-own-ti_2439293.jpg) > [These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-a-maxwell/these-really-are-our-days-and-we-can-prevail-and-overcome-even-in-the/) [Neal A. Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-a-maxwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c25/neal-a-maxwell-925_adversity_these-really-are-our-days-and-we-can-pre_2833755.png) > [Writing a novel was like I had some Play-Doh to work with and could just keep working with it - doing a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miranda-july/writing-a-novel-was-like-i-had-some-play-doh-to-work-with-and-could/) [Miranda July](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miranda-july/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/808/miranda-july-1600_books_writing-a-novel-was-like-i-had-some-play_2996762.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/keeping-the-faith/#itemlist", "name": "Keeping The Faith Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Advice to friends. Advice to fellow mothers in the same boat. \"How do you do it all?\" Crack a joke. Make it seem easy. Make everything seem easy. Make life seem easy and parenthood and marriage and freelancing for pennies, writing a novel and smiling after a rejection, keeping the faith after two, reminding oneself that four years of work counted for a lot, counted for everything. Make the bed. Make it nice. Make the people laugh when you sit down to write and if you can't make them laugh make them cry. Make them want to hug you or hold you or punch you in the face. Make them want to kill you or fuck you or be your friend. Make them change. Make them happy. Make the baby smile. Make him laugh. Make him dinner. Make him proud. Hold the phone, someone is on the other line. She says its important. People are dying. Children. Friends. Press mute because there is nothing you can say. Press off because you're running out of minutes. Running out of time. Soon he'll be grown up and you'll regret the time you spent pushing him away for one more paragraph in the manuscript no one will ever read. Put down the book, the computer, the ideas. Remember who you are now. Wait. Remember who you were. Wait. Remember what's important. Make a list. Ten things, no twenty. Twenty thousand things you want to do before you die but what if tomorrow never comes? No one will remember. No one will know. No one will laugh or cry or make the bed. No one will have a clue which songs to sing to the baby. No one will be there for the children. No one will finish the first draft of the novel. No one will publish the one that's been finished for months. 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They've taken into their hearts the idea that there is enough for all of us, that success will manifest itself in different ways for different sorts of artists, that keeping the faith is more important than cashing the check, that being genuinely happy for someone else who got something you hope to get makes you genuinely happier too.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cheryl Strayed" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cheryl-strayed/a-lot-of-artists-give-up-because-it-s-just-too-damn-hard-to-go-on/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/502/cheryl-strayed-605_abundance_a-lot-of-artists-give-up-because-it-s-ju_2430941.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/502/cheryl-strayed-605_abundance_a-lot-of-artists-give-up-because-it-s-ju_2430941.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/502/cheryl-strayed-605_abundance_a-lot-of-artists-give-up-because-it-s-ju_2430941.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A lot of artists give up because it's just too damn hard to go on making art in a culture that by and large…” — Cheryl Strayed", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Everything in Life happens in its own time and at its own pace. 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