Quotes About Struggles

When bad requirements happen to good people

It's easy to look back and think how we could make only the good things happen to us,' counseled Catherine, still swishing her mop to and fro, spreading dirty water instead of soaking it up. 'But that's not how we become ourselves. You are mad who you are by the bad stuff, the little things, as much as the great triumphs and big decisions.

Knitting had done more than provide her with a living; it had soothed her soul through more struggles than she could count.

One thing I learned when I went to college was that everyone is dealing with something.

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

They say troubles never comes singly,

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

When public schools first began opening to girls, the curriculum was mainly based on memorization and beatings.

We have counseled many couples that started their journey in parenting with high hopes and the best intentions to love and nurture their newborns, only to see their dreams reduced to a nightmare of survival.

This is a book that looks at how we can use the challenges, joys, struggles, and celebrations of marriage to draw closer to God and to grow in Christian character.

In this fallen world, struggles, sin, and unfaithfulness are a given. The only question is whether our response to these struggles, sin, and unfaithfulness will draw us closer to God—or whether it will estrange us from ourselves, our Creator, and each other.

Don't run from the struggles of marriage. Embrace them. Grow in them. Draw nearer to God because of them. Through them you will reflect more of the spirit of Jesus Christ. And thank God he has placed you in a situation where your spirit can be perfected.

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments.

Life is a series of small victories and big disappointments. But it's the small victories that keep us going.

The struggles I endured as a child are what allowed me to recognize and care about pain in others. The validation I longed for as a child is what I see other people longing for just as intensely.

The struggles I endured as a child are what allowed me to recognize and care about pain in others. The validation I longed for as a child is what I see other people longing for just as intensely. Thousands of people had the courage to share their stories with me because their story was my story. Their pain was my pain. Because all pain is the same. — Oprah

No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile.

So the immortals spun our lives that we, we wretched men live on to bear such torments-the gods live free of sorrows. There are two great jars that stand on the floor of Zeus's halls and hold his gifts, our miseries one, the other blessings. When Zeus who loves the lightning mixes gifts for a man, now he meets with misfortune, now good times in turn.

Therefore let no man press for our return before he beds down with some Trojan wife, to avenge the struggles and the groans of Helen.

The purpose of life's good and bad is to teach us to be better people, which is why you have to overcome this and appreciate the beauty of life. That's what God wants from us.

There are a lot of people who have the same fears and problems I had as a young man growing up. You read about it all the time. If you can help someone in some way, terrific.