Quotes About Struggles

When love dries in a marriage, the children become mortar for the bricks. When the children leave, the bricks just sit atop each other. When the children die, the bricks tumble.

All this emphasis on youth—I don't buy it," he said. "Listen, I know what a misery being young can be, so don't tell me it's so great. All these kids who came to me with their struggles, their strife, their feelings of inadequacy, their sense that life was miserable, so bad they wanted to kill themselves…

You know, we bungled a number of important cases – regrettably. Of course, who wants to read about the failures? I certainly don't.

The truth is, marriage is both difficult and effortless, magnificent and excruciating, blissful and tedious. Sometimes it's all of those things within the same day—even within the same hour.

It's not yet clear which side will win many of the struggles outlined in these pages—only that the companies in the crosshairs are up against far more than they bargained for. There have, however, already been some solid victories, too many to fully catalogue here.

This deliberate attempt to shift cultural values is not about lifestyle politics; nor is it a distraction from the "real" struggles. Because in the rocky future we have already made inevitable, an unshakeable belief in the equal rights of all people and a capacity for deep empathy will be the only things standing between humanity and barbarism.

The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.

Aqui estão as lembranças de centenas de pessoas, suas vidas, seus sentimentos, suas ilusões, sua ausência, os sonhos que nunca conseguiram realizar, as decepções, os enganos e os amores não correspondidos que envenenaram suas vidas... Tudo isso está aqui, preso para sempre.

Prayer is not penicillin and it won't cure everything from philanderin' husbands to ingrown toenails.

There are times when a man's greatest need is to have someone to love, some focal point for his diffused emotions. Also there are times when the irritations, disappointments, and fears of life, restless as spermatozoids, must be released in hate.

Life was good except for?oh, yes, there was always an except.

Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?

Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. ow would you know happiness if you never experienced downs?

But Holly, nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experienced downs?

the pile of personal problems in their inboxes grew higher.

nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if they were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you'd never experienced downs?

Some troubles do not go away as we grow older. They grow older with us.

It's not enough that we have to handle our own race's problems, Claude said. Now we're sucked into the fucking vampire struggles, too. No, I said, feeling I was walking uphill in this conversation. You as a group weren't sucked into the vampire struggles. One of you was taken for a specific purpose. Different scenario.

Children and parents didn't always have close and loving relationships. Like marriages, the pairing of parents and offspring sometimes didn't work out.

I believe that every human being has mental challenges.

The experiences I go through... everything you hear in my lyrics is real. Good or bad, I take it all in and put it all on the mic.

Just because you are living the dream making millions of dollars doesn't mean you don't go through problems.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.