Quotes About Struggle

Io vorrei decifrare le cose che sono importanti. E quel che sto raccontando non è una vita di uomo del sertão, sia pure jagunço, ma la materia che ne vien fuori. Vorrei capire a fondo la paura e il coraggio, e la voglia che spinge la gente a compiere tanti atti, a dare corpo al succedere. Quel che induce la gente a cattive azioni strane, è che uno si trova vicino a quel che è suo, di diritto, e non lo sa, non lo sa, non lo sa!

E a gente raivava alto, para retardar o surgir do medo — e a tristeza em crú — sem se saber por que, mas que era de todos, unidos malaventurados.

No real da vida, as coisas acabam com menos formato, nem acabam. Melhor assim. Pelejar por exato, dá erro contra a gente. Não se queira. Viver é muito perigoso...

o diabo na rua, no meio do redemoinho…

Tudo neste mundo se consegue com trabalho e quem é preto consegue menos com muito mais trabalho, então tem de trabalhar multiplicado e trabalhar em todos os trabalhos e trabalhar o tempo todo e trabalhar sem distrair e sempre acreditar que alguém quer tomar o resultado do trabalho.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: When the sun comes up, you'd better be running!

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

Her grandson Robert Seton bears out her stark intention, 'She occasionally had her fits of melancholy and one in particular, when about eighteen she so far forgot herself at a time of unusual despondency as to entertain the wicked purpose of self-destruction.

Cope or die.

They marched. Not for themselves. They marched to remember the ones who didn't make it back. They marched because seeing so much loss can teach you about life. they marched because we're all fighting a war whether we know it or not...a war for our minds and souls and what we believe in.

You need a negative charge and a positive one to get something moving. We've got the negative; we're going to find the positive if it kills us.

I flopped on the overstuffed kitchen couch and watched him go. I wondered what would happen to all his films and photographs in the upstairs closet - the documentaries on homelessness and drug addiction, the funny short subjects, the half-finished romantic comedy, the boxes of slice-of-life photographs that spoke volumes about the human condition. I wondered how you stop caring about what you've ached over, sweated over. (Thwonk)

Divorce casts so many shadows.

Ellie: "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil." Richard: "Good will triumph over evil." Ellie: "Liar.

Why do you think, A.J.," they say in unison, "that you find these boys so attractive?" I didn't say that this fiery chemical explosion leaps from somewhere inside me. Parents don't want to hear these things. I shrugged and said nothing. "Maybe you should try sitting on the intensity," Mom suggests, "just until your feelings catch up with reality." "We could chain you to the water heater," Dad offers, "until these little moments pass." You see what I'm up against.

You know what we learned from living under the rule of Communism?" "No." "We learned to get mad.

I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.

She studied my face. I rubbed my eyes. "I'm fine," I assured her. That was five months ago. I wasn't fine then and I'm not fine now. (Thwonk)

It's not fair, but sometimes a kid has to act older than their age. You just pray hard to know what to do.

What in the world are we going to do with you?' Mrs. Ritter asked. I could think of a few things. Take it easy on me. Teach me different. Care about me just a little. So many times that year I wanted to shout,'It's not like I'm waking up in the morning and trying to mess up. I just don't get it!

Here I was - my body heading to one place, my heart stuck in another. My mind's got questions and no answers.

You don't understand the power of loss when it first hits you like a baseball coming fast from an out-of-control pitcher....It's the third day after an injury when the pain really starts to throb.

Yet such authenticity was part of [Sonia Sotomayor's] attraction. And she acknowledged what few other prominent figures revealed: she sometimes felt awkward and out of place. In her speeches, she talked about fighting the fear of missteps and failure. 'Like yourself. Like who you are,' she advised young people trying to make their way in the world.

Even before the publication of her bestseller, [Sonia] Sotomayor was a different breed: approachable, human, like the people who came out to greet her. Her book brought her to another level of celebrity and public adulation. She wrote about her 'darker experiences' growing up. She wrote that she had a pudgy nose, a mop of hair, and that it would take most of her adult life to feel pulled together. She became an everywoman with everywoman doubts.