Quotes About Struggle

No one wants to suffer. But yet it is our lot. And some suffer more. Not necessarily by choice. The point is not the bearing of suffering. The point is how it is borne.

Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.

Only Evil and Greater Evil exist and beyond them, in the shadows, lurks True Evil. True Evil, Geralt, is something you can barely imagine, even if you believe nothing can still surprise you. And sometimes True Evil seizes you by the throat and demands that you choose between it and another, slightly lesser, Evil.

?ycie albo ?mier?, chcecie zdycha?, to zdychajcie.

Czu?em si? jak wypchany czym? gorszym ni? trociny.

Dlaczego kraj, który i tak ma nieustannie przesrane – bo a to Ruscy, a to Niemcy, a to Tatarzy, a to w?asna szlachta, a to w?asna g?upota – dodatkowo straumatyzowano najwi?ksz? tragedi? ostatnich stuleci?!

Najwi?kszym k?opotem Polski jest to, ?e sama siebie pu?ci z torbami. I nie b?dzie do tego potrzebny ?aden ?yd, tak jak nie trzeba by?o ?adnego rosyjskiego zamachu, ?eby rozbi? Polsk? i urz?dzi? jej ma?? wojn? domow?.

The Napoleon, the whisky and the Cinzano slept on the highest shelf, as unreal in their beauty and as out of reach as the women in American television programs. In their struggle for a higher existence, these men were forever stuck on the level of their forefathers, on the lowest shelf, where the bottles of white vodka and fruit wine stood open and ready. It was a safe and familiar legacy, the limit of their patrimony, their christening, their Sunday mass and their graveyard.

Nic tak nie przywraca ch?ci do ?ycia jak spierdolone samobójstwo.

Rewolucja to nie by? ?aden Marks naprawiaj?cy ?wiat, tylko skundlony Tamerlan w pogoni za drobiem i czasomierzami.

le village de Sfîntu Gheorghe possédait en lui une sorte d'héroïsme résigné. Soumis aux éléments, plein de précarité, condamné à l'oubli, il se blottissait contre la terre ferme, tel un nid d'hirondelles. (p. 227)

It is time for us to part, my friend. Perhaps our time together will bring more understanding to your life's journey. I can do nothing to alleviate your struggles and would not if I were able. It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that the struggles are worthwhile. Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

Our lives may be swayed by gales of adversity, we may be drowning in the floodwaters of helplessness, but with strong hope we continue the search to find a way when all evidence shouts, 'Quit.

No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always — always — makes itself known.

It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that the struggles are worthwhile. Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

Gay people will eat other gay people alive.

People keep finding themselves in an unforgiving matrix of overwork, stress, and unwilling complicity in the destruction of the earth.

Writing is hard . That's why so few people stick to it and actually finish things. And why you have a right to be immensely proud when you finish something." [ There Is No Such Thing as Writers' Block : Blog post, October 7, 2001]

You know, my world may look like a pile of shit, but at least I sometimes get to sit on top of it

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

Just 'cause you're black folks think you lack,They laugh at you and scorn you too,What did I do to be so black and blue?

Something has crumbled inside him. Something has broken. Like corrupt clockwork in a smashed watch.

Where has his humanity gone? His compassion? Ha. Pissed away in shell holes, that's where.