Quotes About Struggles

These struggles to change the world: I've seen them end either in a miserable dictatorship bloated with simplistic ideology applied with no less primitive rhetoric, or in a profitable business for a handful of cynics who always pretend to be disinterested, decent people committed to the welfare of the country and its inhabitants. In either case, the dead, the orphans and widows, become pretexts for parades and ceremonies as sickening as they are hypocritical. The great lie built on grief.

Sí, la vida está llena de estos pequeños sinsabores que la perturban de un modo negativo. Mucho más que los problemas metafísicos, son las ínfimas contrariedades las que nos muestran el lado aburdo de la existencia.

C'était donc cela, le sens, la raison d'être de toute une vie : si l'on était là, si l'on tolérait tant d'épreuves, si l'on faisait l'effort de continuer à respirer, si l'on acceptait tant de fadeur, c'était pour connaître l'amour.

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can't remember a time in my life that I haven't battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.

Ultimately, we stars are human being at the end of the day. We also have bad habits, weaknesses, we also make mistakes.

The Bible is full of wealth, miracles, goodness and badness.

I have a fundamentally hopeful view about people, and that might merely be a reflection of the fact that I've lived an incredibly privileged life in a very wealthy nation without a lot of the struggles that most of the world has to face.

Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Dealing with people every day wears on you.

I spend a fair bit of time in Los Angeles, and there is much I love about the place - the weather, the food, the beaches and the golf. And a few things I don't. Like the way an enormous number of mentally ill people seem to be forced to live on the streets with little or nothing in the way of government assistance.

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

Sometimes, life just gets in the way, and you have to forgive yourself for putting on a few pounds.

I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

There were a lot of bad relationships that got very convoluted up at Columbia with me, what they expected from me.

The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.

2020 has been crap.

My weight fluctuates, just like any other person's does, and there will always be critics.