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Quotes About Struggle

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
Especially if what you can't change on your own got you dumped from one home after another.
~ Anna DeStefano
Being alone is a choice. It's how we protect ourselves, and it's how we give up when it feels too hard to keep fighting to belong. But
~ Anna DeStefano
I'm not some tragic heroine," Mallory said, "in a story about how everything works out beautifully in the end, and all you have to do to make your dreams come true is love hard enough. You do have to believe, and you do have to love, and you have to hope and keep hoping or you'll lose your mind and give up. But none of that makes the worst of what's happening to you go away. It just helps you keep going and doing the best you can, no matter how bad it gets.
~ Anna DeStefano
Being alone is a choice. It's how we protect ourselves, and it's how we give up when it feels too hard to keep fighting to belong.
~ Anna DeStefano
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
~ Anna Freud
There are few situations in life which are more difficult to cope with than an adolescent son or daughter during the attempt to liberate themselves.
~ Anna Freud
Vivimos atrapados entre el pasado agitado y examinado, y un futuro que espera nuestro trabajo
~ Anna Freud
People were crazy with pain and secrets.
~ Anna Funder
There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.
~ Anna Funder
When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.
~ Anna Funder
Julia and her family, like many others in the GDR, trod this line between seeing things for what they were in the GDR, and ignoring those realities in order to stay sane.
~ Anna Funder
We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.
~ Anna Funder
A volte l'uomo è preso da un senso di nausea, fisica o spirituale, che lo priva di ogni volontà e determinazione e lo spinge, fiacco e allo sbando, a desiderare la morte. Allora sprofonda irresistibilmente verso la distruzione, verso un folle tuffo nel caos.
~ Anna Funder
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
~ Anna Garlin Spencer
Es ist Jahre her, da hatte das Leben für sie aufgegeben, als Charles auf schmerzhafte Weise bewusst wurde, wie schwer es ihm fiel, die Pläne für das Projekt zu lesen, das andere das Leben nannten.
~ Anna Gavalda
Mais c'est magnifique de souffrir quand on est en bonne santé. C'est un privilège ! Il n'ya que les morts qui ne souffrent plus ! Réjouis-toi, ma belle ! Va, cours, vole, espère, plante-toi, saigne ou festoie, mais vis ! Vis un peu !
~ Anna Gavalda
Je vais te dire quelque chose, mon ami: c'est plus facile d'être malheureux qu'heureux, et moi, tu m'entends, je n'aime pas les gens qui choisissent la facilitê, je n'aime pas les geignards! Sois heureux, merde! Fais ce qu'il faut pour être heureux!
~ Anna Gavalda
Je peux pas faire reset. Je ne peux pas. Mon enfance, c'est un poison que j'ai dans le sang et y a que quand je serai morte que j'en souffrirai plus. Mon enfance, c'est moi, et comme mon enfance ne vaut rien, moi, derrière, j'ai beau essayer de la contrecarrer de toutes mes forces, je ne fais jamais le poids.
~ Anna Gavalda
Un mundo en el que todo el mundo se suicida así: a fuego lento y arrastrando consigo a los más débiles.
~ Anna Gavalda
I cried from the Place de l'Etoile to the Place de Clichy. I cried all the way across Paris. I cried for my life.
~ Anna Gavalda
Ich hatte Lust auf eine Zigarette. Es war bescheuert, ich hatte vor Jahren aufgehört zu rauchen.Tja,aber so ist das Leben. Da beweist du eine fabelhafte Willenskraft, um dann eines Wintermorgens zu beschließen, daß du vier Kilometer durch die Kälte laufen willst, um eine Schachtel Zigaretten zu kaufen...
~ Anna Gavalda
Quand je bois, je bois trop, quand je fume, je me bousille, quand j'aime, je perds la raison et quand je travaille, je me tue...Je ne sais rien faire normalement sereinement, je... - Et quand tu détestes? - Ça je sais pas... - Je croyais que tu me détestais, moi? - Pas encore, sourit-elle, pas encore...Tu verras quand ça arrivera...Tu verras la différence...
~ Anna Gavalda
D?vains v?rietis… K? zivs… Kas vienm?r aizlok?s un izsl?d no rok?m…
~ Anna Gavalda