Quotes About Struggle

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

We were never told that it would not hurt, only that nothing would ever finally go wrong; not that it would not often go hard with us but that there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.

The world has taken a five-thousand-year bath in wisdom and is just as grimy as ever.

The gluing together of a clutch of human beings into some semblance of a city has never been more than remotely possible. We are all sinners, and it's the people closest to us that see us at our worst. The family gets the lion's share of life's provocations, aggravations, and enervations. Nowhere is there so much fur quite so ready to be rubbed the wrong way.

the world is going down the drain; only a Savior who is willing to work at the bottom of the drain can redeem it.

You make mistakes, people die. You move forward. Perfect people accomplish nothing.

Kill the heroes and you kill the soul of a nation.

Pero yo le podría evitar el sufrimiento, la lucha, el dolor y la tristeza a los que va a tener que enfrentarse. ?Nuestra experiencia es lo único que no podemos ofrecer a los demás. Cada uno tiene que pasar por su propio dolor y pesar para poder encontrar la alegría y la felicidad que hay al otro lado ?le dijo Merlín con dulzura.

La ira ?dijo Merlín? es tan sólo una expresión de la cólera. Hay desesperación, depresión, indefensión, desesperanza y, desde luego, impotencia. Todas las cosas que vos habéis sentido controladas por los hombres.

Y en cuanto a nosotros, seguiremos luchando en las montañas como guerrillas si perdemos Kandahar, y si alcanzamos el martirio, habremos obtenido una victoria.» Estoy empezando a cansarme de todo esto, pero empiezo a comprenderlo. La victoria llega con el éxito y la victoria llega con la derrota.

a land where living is so hard that men want a God so they can hate him.

If the creative process is so powerful, it would be natural to wonder why many artists have difficulties in their lives. It is because they do not know what they know.

You can get rid of all your problems and still not have what you want.

All those who try to go it sole alone,Too proud to be beholden for relief,Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

And were an epitaph to be my storyI'd have a short one ready for my own.I would have written of me on my stone:I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

My dog," he said, "just barks and plays -has all he wants to eat. He never works- has no trouble about business. In a little while he dies, and that is all. I work with all my strength. I have no time to play. I have trouble every day. In a little while I will die, and then I go to hell. I wish that I had been a dog.

The suicide wants the very thing that a coward fears.

As long as there shall be pain and failure, want and sorrow, agony and crime, men and women will untie life's knot and seek the peace of death.

You could find beauty nearly anywhere if you stopped to look for it, but the battle to get through the days made it easy to forget that this totally cost-free luxury existed.

You are not writing properly unless someone is bleeding, probably you.

But the lies she told were woven into the fabric of her being, her life; so that to live with her and love her was to become slowly enmeshed by them, to wrestle her for the truth, to struggle to maintain foothold on reality.

Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.