Quotes About Struggle

I always knew what I wanted but just got a little disillusioned for a while. It was so difficult to understand what my music is.

I left Brazil at 17 years old in order to give my family a better life, but when I returned home two years later, I was completely disillusioned with football.

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.

I don't like rehabilitating myself. It is one of the things I dislike.

There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

I had an attachment disorder.

I was never diagnosed with an eating disorder but I definitely had a difficult relationship with food.

If it was bi-polar disorder in '3,' I have delved into intuitions in 'Vai Raja Vai.'

People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

Honestly, I never thought I would ever tell anyone that I had an eating disorder. It was my deepest, darkest secret.

It's anxiety that led to a depression that I've been dealing with since I was 16, 17. That was the first time I was ever prescribed medication for either of those disorders I guess you would call it.

Bipolar disorder is something that is mine. And it is very difficult to talk about it.

My dad is not an alcoholic but has a chronic liver disorder along with heavy diabetes.

How can you disrespect the West Indies when we were so dominant in world cricket for so long? We have to face it ourselves because our own board don't defend us.

It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll never go back as long as anyone in the Castro family is in power.' Well, what happens if you can go back? Would you want to see things?

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to ruin whatever you are attempting to do. This is a fact of life.

Dissent is difficult. It can constitute a real dilemma for the person who disagrees.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

You've got to stick up for what you believe in. If you don't do that, you're doing a disservice to the audience, because you're making something really diluted. And if you do that when you're a guy, you're seen as artistic - 'difficulty' is seen as a sign of genius. But it's not the same for women.

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.

As an adult, I had to accept that I was not a natural distance runner. Anything more than about 400 metres had me gasping and wheezing like a broken accordion.

Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.