Quotes About Struggles

buffeted by the passions and longings of youth.

Words attributed long afterward to Sojourner Truth, who spoke to a Woman's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, in 1851, put the struggles of the day well: "I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.

Your cross is your attitude about your dead-end job and your in-laws. It is your attitude about your aches and pains. Any complaints, any grumblings, any disputings or murmurings, any anxieties, any worries, any resentments or anything that hints of a raging torrent of bitterness--these are the things God calls me to die to daily.

It isn't the hurts, blows, and bruises that rob us of the freshness of Christ's beauty in our lives. More likely, it is careless ease, empty pride, earthly preoccupations, and too much prosperity that will put layers of dirty film over our souls.

Por eso a veces es tan difícil estar con otro. Porque cuando estoy sola puedo imaginarme que soy de lo mejor; pero en el contacto íntimo sale lo mejor y también lo peor de mí: mi competencia, mis celos, mi lucha por el poder, mis ganas de controlarte, de manipularte, mi falta de generosidad, etcétera, etcétera, etcétera.

But the days are a web of small troubles, And is there a greater blessing Than to be the ash of which oblivion is made? Pero los dias son una red de triviales miserias, y habra suerte mejor que la ceniza de que esat hecho el ovido?

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail.

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

We shouldn't be too critical of players if they do have lean patches.

Every season has its bad patches.

I guess we go through multiple rough patches in all of our relationships.

When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.

I feel like it's my duty to keep it real for my community of moms out there for both my own peace of mind and the fact that some of you may be going through or have experienced what I am!

Everything isn't always going to be peaches and cream. If it is, then it's fake.

In the last 15 years, only 500,000 jobs have been created per year. So from a long time ago, every year 700,000 Mexicans have only three routes to take: migration, the informal economy and the path to antisocial behavior.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

When I was a kid, I was very much a perfectionist, and I had a bunch of different compulsions.

Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.

Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

Yes, I did have occasional scripts like a 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' or a 'Talwaar' that nurtured the performer in me, but I do wish there were more options.

I love football. But it goes through periods of poor play.