Quotes About Struggle

Pain both ways and what is worse?

My heart's a dance of fear.

that we must suffer, suffer into truth. We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart the pain of pain remembered comes again and we resist.

Give me an answer which is plain to understand.

Look - can't you see? The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

No man can go through life and reach the end unharmed. Aye, trouble is now, and trouble still to come.

Man must suffer to be wise. Head-winds heavy with past iol Stray his course and cooud his heart; Sorrow takes the blind soul's part-- Man grows wise against his will. For powers who rule from thrones above By ruthlessness commend their love.

Zeus, whose will has marked for man The sole way where wisdom lies; Ordered one eternal plan: Man must suffer to be wise. Head-winds heavy with past ill Stray his course and cloud his heart: Sorrow takes the blind soul's part - Man grows wise against his will. For powers who rule from thrones above By ruthlessness commend their love.

We call on the gods, and the gods well know what storms torment us, sailors whirled to nothing. But if we are to live and reach the haven, one small seed could grow a mighty tree -

Todo es arduo, menos ser rey de dioses. Que, excepto Zeus, nadie en el mundo es libre.

We're not gods; why then expect to enjoy a lifetime of unbroken happiness?

What mortal else who hears shall claim he was born immune to the demon of harm?

Cry, cry for death, but good win out in glory in the end.

Yet the insidious guile of god—what mortal man can escape it? Who with agile foot can lightly overleap and escape its toils?

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.

The North Wind and the Sun

Those who strive are often watched by others who will take advantage of their defeat to benefit themselves.

The weak will sometimes find ways to avenge an insult, even upon the strong.

The most dangerous enemy is the one within.

All evil was created by God to block out spirituality from the world so that man would be forced to struggle for it and therefore appreciate it more deeply.

The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. Your weak weaknesses are no use to them.... They find the strongest weaknesses you didn't know were yours and use those against you.

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.