Quotes About Struggle

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

Look through the unfinished entrance facade, note blue sky where the stained-glass windows would have been, and ponder the struggles, triumphs, and failures of the human spirit.

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It's what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

I was born in a halfway house on a one-way street.

Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks.

No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.

We're All Screwed Up In One Way Or Another. It Sort Of Makes You Normal.

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

South Sudan and its people are at a precarious crossroads between being and not being.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.

Fucked up is the universal condition of man. We were crossing to Oregon behind a cranky team of mules—the very definition, the apotheosis, the pinnacle, of fucked up. I woke in the morning to harness mules, fucked up, obsessed all day on making more miles, fucked up, and collapsed onto my squalid wagon matteess every night, fucked up. I was having a great time, enjoying the best summer of my life, fucked up. Fucked up is good.

A wave of bipolar disorders and addiction to video games and gambling has also taken a toll on families.

I was often overwhelmed as a boy by feelings of anxiety, and by profound embarrassment about the kind of family that I came from, my fears made worse by my inability to share them with anyone else or even to comprehend what they meant.

Perfectionism was my enemy now.

Now I knew a little bit more about how the pioneers felt as they embarked for the West. It was my jumping-off time and I was getting jacked around by the outfitters. •

He would forever be suspended between two lands, never whole.

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Against Self-Pity It gets you nowhere but deeper into your own shit--pure misery a luxury one never learns to enjoy.

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.