Quotes About Struggles

Now Leni was old enough to know that like all fairy tales, theirs was filled with thickets and dark places and broken dreams, and runaway girls.

There were journeys in life no one could take for you.

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Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

There are both "upper and lower springs" in life, and they are springs, not stagnant pools. They are the joys and blessings that flow from heaven above, through the hottest summer and through the most barren desert of sorrow and trials.

Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

He realized that all this time he'd been looking to the Godslayer as a hero, not a man, but that heroes, whatever else they are, are also men - and women - and prey to human troubles just like anybody else.

If wishes were horses, we'd be up to our eyeballs in sh*t.

But sometimes I worried that marriage was just a series of these small deflations, our dreams floating around invisibly near the ceiling like escaped gas.

I'm not saying I know it all. In one way, we've all just got the time since we got up this morning. But I've seen a lot of people walk a lot of roads. Some not so happy. And it makes them what they are. So if you run around putting a pillow under people to cushion their fall . . . well, I'm just not sure it's quite the favor we think it is.

I have sad. But that's not the same as problems. Problems are something you have to figure out a way to solve. You can't solve sad.

Thirty-six years. I'm not saying I know it all. In one way, we've all just got the time since we got up this morning. But I've seen a lot of people walk a lot of roads. Some not so happy. And it makes them what they are. So if you run around putting a pillow under people to cushion their fall . . . well, I'm just not sure it's quite the favor we think it is.

Life gives us nothing outright.

Really? Are you sure?" "I have sad. But that's not the same as problems. Problems are something you have to figure out a way to solve. You can't solve sad.

Children struggling with affective and relational difficulties may not display the normal range of emotion, do not regulate their emotions well, have difficult relationships with others, and feel little pleasure or reward from normal experience. They may also display little age-appropriate empathy, have difficulty delaying gratification, or may have learning or memory difficulties.

All your quirks and your problems, even your depressions and your failures - that's what makes you you.

It's always something.

Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.

Sous quelque habit que ce soit, je n'en sentirai pas moins les misères de l'existence humaine. Je suis trop vieux pour jouer encore, trop jeune pour être sans désirs. Qu'est-ce que le monde peut m'offrir de bon ? Tout doit te manquer, tu dois manquer de tout ! Voilà l'éternel refrain qui tinte aux oreilles de chacun de nous, et ce que, toute notre vie, chaque heure nous répète d'une voix cassée.

Yes, that's the worst of it. It's a desperately vexatious thing that, after all one's reflections and quiet determinations, we should be ruled by moods that one can't calculate on beforehand.

Even happiness worries sometimes.

Life is difficult enough without undue association with people.

What the good Lord giveth, he also taketh away. Then he puts it back again.