Quotes About Struggles

All the problems anyone has ever faced, and will ever face over the course of their lifetime have already been made

Under the best of circumstances, middle school is a sixth-circle-of-hell situation, sandwiched somewhere between flaming tombs and flesh-eating harpies. It's the kind of situation that doesn't need gasoline on the fire, especially when said gasoline comes in the form of your older brother murdering the older sister of the third-most popular girl in school.

And again, damn. Of troubles I considered myself amply possessed. But those who have do seem to get. Some spiritual form of compound interest, I suppose.

There's nothing more political than epistemological struggles.

This was the innovating constitutional heaven brought into being by Spanish American independence struggles; and, in some regions, the impact was dramatic and long-lasting. By the mid nineteenth century, the political life of large stretches of South America was more inclusive in terms of social class and race – though not gender – than in the United States or much of Europe.

Where are these perfect families? Is it yours? Your friend's, your neighbor's? I don't think you can just point one out. The ones we're most likely to admire are simply the ones with the best-kept secrets. No, the real perfect families, they have warts and bruises and scars. They had to screw up and admit their mistakes. They had to do everything wrong so they could learn how to do a few things right. They had to hate so they could know what to love.

Where are these perfect families? Is it yours? Your friend's, your neighbor's? I don't think you can just point one out. The ones we're most likely to admire are simply the ones with the best-kept secrets. No, the real perfect families, they have warts and bruises and scars. They had to screw up and admit their mistakes. They had to do everything wrong so they could learn how to do few things right. They had to hate so they could know what to love.

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

If we have faith in Jesus Christ the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing.

Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

Once all struggles are grasped, miracles are possible.

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

Trying to eliminate worldly temptations only makes our spiritual growth limited.

A lot of rookies hit the wall after 50 or 60 games.

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.

The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise.

She had always believed that people who were nasty or unkind to others were only like that because there was something wrong in their lives, and that people who had something wrong in their lives were not to be despised or hated, but were to be pitied. So

all the dilemmas and headaches that could make life a moral minefield.

The world was an imperfect place--as the events of the last few days had demonstrated--but within that vale of tears there were many sites and times of quietude and contentment, and this place and this moment on the veranda was one such.

for the unfortunate man never alluded to his own sorrows.

Los Salmos fueron escritos por hombres de carne y hueso quienes fueron también hombres de Dios. Ellos experimentaron conflictos reales y pruebas duras, tal como nosotros mismos los padecemos. No tienes que leer mucho antes de encontrar que sus palabras se convierten en las tuyas y sus corazones expresan tu propio corazón.

Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you

In a politically correct university culture packed with too many spoiled rich kids complaining of micro-aggressions, parsing every word and statement for any hint it might give offense, no matter how convoluted the logic behind it, desperately needing to separate the world into victimizers and victims. People with so much time on their hands, and so few actual struggles, that the brush of a metaphoric butterfly wing would send them howling in outrage.

These struggles required teamwork, innovation, and advancement.