Quotes About Struggle

I want to believe him. I know stuff happens to people and they can't always be who they were or who they think they're supposed to be. But knowing that doesn't mean I'm okay with it. It's more like what Mr. Krueger says about black holes: We can't wish them away, so we'd better learn as much as we can about where they are and how they work so we don't get sucked in.

But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

the more you fight the uncomfortable sensations directly, the stronger they seem to grow. The more you run from panic, the faster it seems to chase you. The more you avoid panic-provoking situations, the more panic controls your life. If we place ourselves on guard, waiting and watching for the next signs of trouble, we are inviting panic to return sooner. How? By establishing a special relationship with panic, a relationship of opposites.

The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always at zero. It is ice in the veins. Its camera is an X—ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.

admitting the ultimate defeat of the spirit in self-imposed death.

But lately I have learned what it is to be human. Learned, but not understood. It seems to involve a great deal of misery crammed into a very short lifetime." His

Having God is having someone to rage against," she said over coffee. "Where else will I go with that? God is strong enough to take it, like a strong parent. My railing is not only against God, but also against man. Where was God? Where was man?

while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.

true faith never comes without anguish.

Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

I almost hope it is a mouth that opens directly to hell, for of a certainty, we could use the heat.

What good is fighting if what you are fighting for is lost?

Zeke and I struggled to get to the dressing room so we could get changed. But we were mobbed by people who wanted to congratulate us and tell us how talented and terrific we were.

But I wasn't feeling like a winner. I felt like an ugly freak.

No Through Road All in vain, I will cease now My long absorption with the plough, With the tame and the wild creatures And man united with the earth. I have failed after many seasons To bring truth to birth, And nature's simple equations In the mind's precincts do not apply. But where to turn? Earth endures After the passing, necessary shame Of winter, and the old lie Of green places beckons me still From the new world, ugly and evil, That men pry for in truth's name.

I can't speak my own language - Iesu, All those good words; And I outside them.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extraordinary destiny. —C. S. LEWIS

We can be at peace through the realization that the adversity is beneficial to act as the genuine demand for wisdom and spiritual power.

The revolution revolutionizes the counter revolution