Quotes About Struggles

Our struggles with e-mail are a bit pathetic, but the larger topic is worth considering: Is it possible to design an environment in which undesired behaviors—whether yours or your colleagues'—are made not only harder but impossible? As it turns out, lots of people actually make their living contemplating how to wipe out the wrong kinds of behaviors.

Perhaps that is the miracle of stories. They make us realize that we're not alone in our folly and our suffering.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

Más dinero, más problemas».

It made him feel like less of a man. And given how much less of a man he'd felt the past several weeks, that was really saying something. He was surprised someone from the Man Club hadn't come by to revoke his dick and balls.

Fear of this order is not an emotion. It is like a virus overwhelming every cell of his body, while his mind struggles to remain clear.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Teresa [of Avila]'s story dismantles the common belief that all those chosen for sainthood are flawless in personality and character. Indeed, she would want us to consider her contradictions and struggles as integral to her sainthood.

You told me about how stories come to our aid in times of need.

The mandate to practice social justice is unsettling because taking on the struggles of the poor invariably means challenging the wealthy and those who serve their interests.

Klag ikke under stjernene over mangel på lyspunkter i ditt liv

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Do you know that one out of every five kids has learning challenges? I'm sure I had them, too, but when I was growing up, no one even knew there was such a thing.

the children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold in the sand, and in her bad moments she saw only the griefs, only sand; but there were also good moments, when she saw only joys, only gold.

Each of us has his skeletons in his soul, as the English say.

Do not seek quiet and rest in those earthly realms where delusions and desires are engendered, for if thou dost, thou wilt be dragged through the rough wilderness of life, which is far from Me.

I'll come some day," he said. "But women, my boy, they're the pivot everything turns upon. Things are in a bad way with me, very bad. And it's all through women. Tell me frankly now," he pursued, picking up a cigar and keeping one hand on his glass; "give me your advice.

Every heart has its own skeletons, as the English say.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything

Todas las familias felices se parecen entre sí; pero cada familia desgraciada tiene un motivo especial para sentirse así.

Ka?dy ma w duszy swoje skeletons.

El destino nos hace malas o buenas pasadas. Nuestra felicidad, amigo mío, es como el agua en las redes del pescador. Se las echa al mar y se hinchan; se las saca y se deshinchan. Así es la vida.