Quotes About Struggle

Sometimes salvation is found in agony.

Besides, the storm which rages in her breast was increasing in its violence, and she would have burst her prison walls if her body could have enjoyed, for a single instant, the same proportions as her soul.

Sólo el que ha experimentado el colmo del infortunio puede sentir la felicidad suprema

A man is bound to make for himself in this world, that fortune which heaven had refused him at his birth.

We shine like those fires and those stars; we sigh like those waves; we suffer like those great ships, which are worn out in ploughing the waves, in obeying the wind which urges them towards an end, as the breath of God blows us towards a port. Everything likes to live, Raoul; and everything is beautiful in living things.

He told himself that it was the enmity of man, and not the vengeance of heaven, that had thus plunged him into the deepest misery.

it is a cruel thing to be forced to say, but, already used to misfortune, I must habituate myself to shame.

Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.

A man is always endowed by Heaven with too much for his own happiness, and just enough to make him miserable.

Very well, young man, very well, Treville went on, I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

Dantes was on the way he desired to follow, and was moving towards the end he wished to achieve; his heart was in a fair way of petrifying in his bosom.

My Story of the War

That said, nothing builds reader involvement more surely than a character whose moral struggle pervades the tale. When readers hope, beg, and plead with you to let a character turn toward the light, you have readers where you want them. A character who is good is good; a character

That said, nothing builds reader involvement more surely than a character whose moral struggle pervades the tale. When readers hope, beg, and plead with you to let a character turn toward the light, you have readers where you want them. A character who is good is good; a character whom we want to be good is even better. Not

No matter how much I stir, my soup still sticks to the pot.

He'd sit and listen to Nana's Jesus stories all day, but when she turned to the Old Testament prophets, Louis Valentine's little face would darken. He said, "I hate it when God is mean!

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

These questions must determine the accused's fate. This is the sense and essence of red terror. . . . It doesn't judge the enemy, it strikes him. It shows no mercy, but incinerates anyone who takes up arms on the other side of the barricades and who is of no use to us. . . . But it isn't a guillotine cutting off heads at a tribunal's instance. . . . We, like the Israelites, have to build the Kingdom of the Future

Pigeon, your wings are no good.

the world is no fit place for human beings. we harm and ache.

Some motionless conflict in the sky

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Puedes encontrar toda la gama de emociones humanas a lo largo de los 150 salmos. Júbilo, frustración, desaliento, culpa, perdón, gozo, gratitud, el trato con los enemigos, contentamiento, descontento —y todo lo demás que puedas estar pensando ahora—: todo se encuentran en el libro de los Salmos.

Todo creyente debe atravesar algunos desiertos espirituales en su peregrinación a la ciudad celestial.