Quotes About Struggle

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

It's not easy. It's not supposed to be easy. Most people make mistakes. Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.

every time I am about to follow my heart, I am offered enormous temptation.

Some people are born into their passions. Some never get them and don't care. But I think if you're really struggling to find it - and I think you have, I mean, you've gone all over the country to find it - it's almost certainly for a reason. I think the depth of your struggling is the sign there's something there. Something in you that's trying to get out. People who don't have passions don't struggle.

The randomness of cancer is often very hard to accept.

Fate is often like a canoe after you've lost your paddles.

People can be hurt so badly that they choose to just stop in their tracks.

What I mean is, all the terrible things that happen in fairy tales seem real. Or not real, but genuine. Life is unfair, and the bad guys keep winning and good people die. But I like how that's not always the end of it...Evil is real, but so is good. They always say fairy tales are simplistic, black and white, but I don't think so. I think they're complicated. That's what I love about them.

The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.

We too must remain faithful to the 'yes' we have given to the Lord's offer of friendship. We know that he will never abandon us. We know that he will always sustain us through the gifts of the Spirit. Mary accepted the Lord's' proposal' in our name. So let us turn to her and ask her to guide us as we struggle to remain faithful to the life-giving relationship God has established with each one of us.

I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up.

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.

I have been through so much, I wanted to say, but the words were tangled in my throat.

I ran like someone running away from something, as if my demons were literally chasing me across the park. I ran crying, tears streaming down my face, and one time I caught myself yelling, a strange canine yelp that felt strangely good to release into that cold wind.