Quotes About Struggles

You're way too young to be so miserable

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.

I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.

I think it took me a long time to realize that you can't really score unless someone passes you the ball. The older you get as a woman, it's fewer and far between. The material isn't there.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. ? Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

Il faut éviter de penser à ces difficultés que présente le monde. Sans ça, il deviendrait tout à fait irrespirable.

La vie est atroce ; nous savons cela. Mais précisément parce que j'attends peu de choses de la condition humaine, les périodes de bonheur, les progrès partiels, les efforts de recommencement, et de continuité me semblent autant de prodiges qui compensent presque l'immense masse des maux, des échecs, de l'incurie et de l'erreur.

School might have been shit, but at least it was simple.

Very old age is when the things that go wrong cause other things to go wrong, until, like sparks racing up a fuse, they finally reach a pack of dynamite.

still, if it's hot enough I'll lie in the sun and feel at least three types of despair: despair that life is mostly gone and I've wasted it; despair that I cannot feel now what I thought I would if I saw all my struggles through; and despair that, because I don't know any other course to take, nothing will change.

Duc de La Rochefoucauld which was peculiarly appropriate to Louis XIV in 1667 was his reflection on the human heart where 'new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another'.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

But you must remember you're dealing with human beings. You can transport them to another world and give them a paradise, but they still come equipped with their fears and insecurities and cultural predilections.

Misfortunes never come single.

It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and no profession by which he may earn any.

I think I've finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do.

I think I've finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too.

Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

I know the struggles that are ahead in my life and I know the struggles that are ahead in your life. It's not going to be pretty.

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.