Quotes About Struggles

Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scandals, injustices and regrets from decades earlier that they're barely able to appreciate their accomplishments.

Remember we're all human and we all have our good days and bad days and days when we feel banging and other days when we feel absolutely rotten and that's ok.

I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.

I have had a partial kneecap replacement, an irritable bowel and three stents in my heart.

Everyone thinks living abroad is fun... The ideal life. Take it from me - it's tough.

I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

People who think that the immigration system is easy and people should just apply legally - it just isn't that easy.

People like to pick at your imperfections, and that can be very hard on you as a person. I think, a lot of times, people forget that we're human beings and some of us are fighting self-esteem issues already.

When I said I wanted to walk away from football, people think I was just talking about the two or three incidents that have happened on the pitch.

There isn't a woman alive who doesn't have problems with her body. Including me!

We all suffer from dreams.

Sometimes God gives you things not because you like them, but because you need them

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.

In politics, almost everywhere we see what looks like the externalisation of psychic wounds or deficits.

I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.

That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with one thing in your life, 500 others rear their head.

I don't think any one relationship in my life has wrecked me. I think I am a collection of wrecks.

It's funny: wrestlers and comics bond over remembering their best shows and their absolute worst shows.

When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.

The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.