Quotes About Struggles

I drank when I was happy and I drank when I was anxious and I drank when I was bored and I drank when I was depressed, which was often.

God knew the man needed someone to join him in the walk of faith, to shoulder the burdens of the mission, engage in the struggles, watch his back, and stand with him against the Enemy. God had the perfect answer in mind.

a new baby is not uninterrupted bliss. It's joy mixed with terror, fatigue, depression, intense feelings of helplessness, loneliness and inadequacy. And poop.

I could not help thinking (as I told her) that half the pleasures of life were derived from the little struggles and small privations that one had to endure

No one is happy all his life long.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.

When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, But in battalions!

When caught reading the Bible, W.C. Fields said T'm looking for loopholes.' The Bible is nothing but a succession of civil rights struggles by the Jewish people against their oppressors.

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.

The year 2020 has been the 1918 Spanish Flu, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s all rolled into one.

Tako se teško živi, tako se kratko živi, pa još dobra polovica tog teškog i kratkog života nam pro?e u mržnji i nesporazumima. Oh, ugasite mržnju! Ljudi su nama potrebni i nikako se, nikako ne može živjeti bez opraštanja.

Ambicije i tu truju ljudima zivote i medjusobne odnose, mrznje tinjaju godinama,velike ljubavi nicu neocekivano i gase se sporo i zalosno.Ukratko, tu ima pomalo od svega sto inace medju ljudima biva i sto ih povezuje ili deli, podize ili satire.

Ali nevolje ne traju vje?no (i to im je zajedni?ko sa radostima) nego prolaze ili se bar smjenjuju i gube u zaboravu.

u naše vreme i najve?i ratovi i najsavršenije pobede retko i nepotpuno rešavaju pitanja zbog kojih se ratovalo i pobedilo, ali zato otvaraju redovno velik broj novih i teških pitanja.

Why did people always get tangled up with other people? Why put ourselves through this shit?

Love can conquer everything but reality.

And though Remi was having worklife problems and bad lovelife with a sharp-tongued woman, he at least had learned to laugh almost better than anyone in the world, and I saw all the fun we were going to have in Frisco.

Troubles, you see, is the generalization-word for what God exists in.

What did I care about all the irking hurts and tedious wronks of the world, the human bones are but vain lines dawdling

People were complex creatures, walking, talking rag quilts, youthful dreams and hopes and fears and middle-aged indiscretions, aging aches and pains and losses, the whole damn kit and kaboodle, mended here and tattered there. People were pushed and pulled in all sorts of directions and did whatever it was they had to do for balance.

The path for the democratic development of Hong Kong since the return to the motherland has been full of twists and turns. We have had some successes and some failures.