Quotes About Struggle

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma.

Can you believe it? They made me an ensign." "I didn't realize that things were going so bad." "Scary, isn't it?

somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons.

Now Sam and Noelle were dead and I was about to lost my grandpa, and I knew I would never have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.

I'd married a near stranger because I felt like I had no choice. When you're young, you have more choices than you'll ever again have in your life, yet sometimes you can't see them. I'd truly been blind.

went wrong with Celia, too, she

You're supposed to help people, even if it's hard to do. Especially if it's hard to do.

It's not my mind that's sick... It's my soul. ...and there aren't any drugs that are gonna fix that.

around the open windows, but it was too

But she could only play herself with Kyle and Lou, and that was the one role for which she could never memorize the lines.

It was me—the weak-willed, easily seduced, insecure girl I'd become. I was the obstacle I'd be carrying around with me for the rest of my life.

Okay." I smiled, although I was not doing okay at all. My calm exterior was an act. Inside, I was falling apart.

right. It's hopeless

Violence is the weapon of the weak. - Ralph Abernathy

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

The whole universe tumbled in what seemed chaos, but he couldn't bring himself to use that word. The man who heard the land heard his own heart as if it were distant space struggling with its solar dust and clattering, its turbulence on a scale he couldn't comprehend.

We're all just trying to get through the day.

Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.

When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

impairment in executive function may be the most disabling result of having an autism spectrum condition because of its negative impact on life outcome.

Sometimes you have to fight fire with a blowtorch

for no matter whether the relationship was of short or long duration, no matter whether the partners were rich or poor, gay or straight, young or old, living together or married, giving up the relationship was hard for both people.

Whatever the struggle continue the climb it may be only one step to the summit.