Quotes About Struggle

That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.

?adna noc nie jest tak ciemna ani ?adna sytuacja tak rozpaczliwa, ?eby boska interwencja nie mog?a pogorszy? tego stanu.

Jig had never worried about pursuing his destiny. Generally, destiny pursued him. Then it knocked him down and kicked him a few times for good measure.

The true enemy of good isn't evil, but fear. Evil will battle good, but fear will corrupt it.

A minimum of three and a half hours. Probably closer to five." The vent's valve mechanism was meant to be serviced from the other side. It took half an hour of fighting to find a decent angle with the wrench and remove the bolts. She finally managed to tug it loose, at which point she had to spend another twenty minutes using her torch to cut the damned thing into smaller pieces so she could get it out of her way.

With both mission and purpose and pain you're in great shape, but without both you're wandering in the desert.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Well, necessity is the motherfucker of invention, man.

That, I realized, is the great beauty of dreams: the devil may inevitably find a way to jerk you off, but you can always wake up before he makes you cum.

He was about to find out that when you open a door with a psychiatrist's name on it, you'd better be prepared to witness exactly how fucked up your life has become.

I'm beginning to have second thoughts regarding the validity of Gloria's theory that I can overcome my heroin addiction by the simple process of shooting up vast quantities of speed with her twenty times daily.

Now I got these diaries that have the greatest hero a writer needs, this crazy fucking New York.

I'm just really a wise ass kid getting wiser and I'm going to get even somehow for your dumb hatreds and all them war baby dreams you left in my scarred bed with dreams of bombs falling above that cliff I'm hanging steady to.

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.

What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.

Within mummies themselves lies the potential for greatness, be it great evil or great accomplishment, but titanic forces struggle to move them. Entire chronicles may hinge on that one fact.

No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure.

crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.

Wheat—like men and women—benefits from being crushed. Crushing makes it fit to stand up all the better.

Siempre que la nube determine la ruta, podemos estar seguros de que Dios luchará de nuestro lado. De otro modo, estaremos solos en territorio enemigo.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.