Quotes About Struggles

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.

Truths are not constantly evident in the circumstances to which they refer. They are born - sometimes late. This truth was born with the struggles and wars of national libration. In the light of the newborn truth, the significance of imperialism changed. Its demands were seen to be different. Previously it had demanded cheap raw materials, exploited labour and a controlled world market. Today it demands a mankind that counts for nothing.

Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents take place.

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.

The first kind of problems are the ones life sends upon you to test you, to make you humble or make you longsuffering, or whatever you may need.

I question whether the spiritual life does not get its surest and most ample guarantees when it is learned that the laws and conditions of righteousness are implicated in the working processes of the universe; when it is found that man in his conscious struggles, in his doubts, temptations and defeats, in his aspirations and successes, is moved on and buoyed up by the forces which have developed nature.

There's no solution to life, there's going to be problems no matter what.

[Roseanne Roseannadanna line:] It's always something.

I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.

I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream

The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

If I help one person out with getting through the struggles that I've had, then I've done my job on this planet and this life.

Life is but a series of misunderstandings.

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.

There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.

There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...

Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.