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Quotes About Struggles

the good sense to fortify himself with the things of the flesh for the struggles of the spirit.
~ Ellis Peters
Give grace to your children today by speaking of sin and mercy. Tell Susan that she can relax into God's loving embrace and stop thinking that she has to perform in order to get her welcoming Father to love her. Tell David that he can have hope that even though he really struggles, he's the very sort of person Jesus loved being around. Dazzle them with his love.
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
As if one killed by calculation! A person kills only from an impulse that springs from his blood and sinews, from the vestiges of ancient struggles, from the need to live and the joy of being strong.
~ Émile Zola
Grandes dolores de corazón y propósitos de la enmienda suelen quedarse entre las mantas.
~ Emilia Pardo Bazán
When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.
~ Eoin Colfer
Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
~ Eric Hoffer
Falling in love is easy. Being in love sucks.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Troubles are the price of adventure.
~ Erica Jong
Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
She's altered the rules on me. We weren't supposed to become the teenagers who 'have problems.
~ Amy Goldwasser
Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don't want to be in his line of sight when he does.
~ Amy Neftzger
i too suffer from dreams.
~ Ana Castillo
Qué se hizo de sus recuerdos, de sus secretos? No murió sólo su cuerpo. Un cortejo de luces y sombras, de sonidos, de deseos, de color, de luchas y de recompensas terminaba con él.
~ Ana María Matute
I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!
~ Andie MacDowell
I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability.
~ Zoe Foster Blake
I may weep inconsolably when I hold a copy of 'All I Know Now' for the first time. I just hope that everyone who reads it enjoys it and finds some comfort in knowing that the journey through the 'teen age' is difficult for all of us and they're definitely not alone.
~ Carrie Hope Fletcher
The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood are tame compared with those of our maturer years.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.
~ Shailene Woodley
I was told I was fat in the modeling world, and a director on a shoot told me I needed to lose weight. The J-Lo booty wasn't popular then, and I wanted to be the perfect Hollywood girl - tall, blonde and skinny. I couldn't do the 'tall' because I was 5'2, and I couldn't do the skinny, either.
~ Coco Austin
My weight fluctuates, like any normal girl, and I have times when I feel insecure.
~ Khloe Kardashian
I think most people are weirder and more messed up than they would let other people know.
~ Paul Walter Hauser
Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.
~ Lynn Johnston