Quotes About Struggles

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

The High Middle Ages resounded with conflicts between the popes and the emperors and other temporal rulers.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

Are we not all chained down by our mood-swings sometimes?

Mood swings are constantly haunting us, even in our dreams, from achieving perfection.

Power is everywhere. Even in religions, there are still power struggles. Leaders are also everywhere, regardless of the size of your group.

The 6s, of course, was the worst time in the world to try to bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward, edited by Isaac Metzker.)

We cannot understand, but that doesn't mean our just and loving God doesn't have His reasons. If we have faith, every experience we undergo in life, good or bad, will bring us closer to Him.

History paints the human heart.

For during life it is our wants, our hopes, our fears that enslave us.

It follows, then, that you and I cannot really expect to glide through life, coolly air-conditioned, while naively petitioning: "Lord, give me experience but not grief, a deeper appreciation of happiness but not deeper sorrow, joy in comfort but not in pain, more capacity to overcome but not more opposition; and please do not let me ever feel perplexed while on thine errand. Then let me come quickly and dwell with thee and fully share thy joy.

The first step toward better policy is to amend our understanding of people's struggles so that it is less about individual irresponsibility and more about our collective irresponsibility in tolerating levels of child poverty that would be unacceptable in the rest of the developed world.

America now lags behind its peer countries in health care and high-school graduation rates while suffering greater violence, poverty and addiction. This dysfunction damages all Americans:

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

Emotion has become a disease with you," said Platon. "You seek your own troubles, and make your own anxieties.

they would have all the same stressors still in place, and they would have no means of lessening them, because, their will, if they had amassed any in their time away, was still weak and always a quick casualty. No match for the horrors of lost chances.

Life is full of sniffles sobs and smiles. With sniffles predominating.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

God is Change, And in the end, God prevails. But meanwhile… Kindness eases Change. Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful Positive obsession Blunts pain, Diverts rage, And engages each of us In the greatest, The most intense Of our chosen struggles

All struggles Are essentially power struggles. Who will rule, Who will lead, Who will define, refine, confine, design, Who will dominate. All struggles Are essentially power struggles, And most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads

All struggles Are essentially power struggles, And most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.