Quotes About Struggle

Many of us have experienced the difficulty in successfully 'giving up' doing something; too often, trying to give it up seems only to keep one focused on the forbidden object or enterprise — enhancing the desire rather than taming it…

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages of fiction.

The concept of Force is that of intermediary between pure consciousness and manifestation. It is the link between the idea and the phenomenon. Force has two aspects-that of electricity and that of life (or struggle on the one hand and cooperation on the other).

When we fight darkness with darkness it just gets darker

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.

Pooley hunched closer to his pint. 'A pox on it all,' said he. 'The Swan packed full of these idiots, old Soap flushed away round the proverbial S-bend and Cowboy Night looming up before us with about as much promise as the coming of Ragnorok!

Still,' whispered Jack, 'you have to keep at it. Overcome the miseries of vomiting and the whirling pit. Pay your dues and work towards the real rewards of big-time adult drinking. Something to look forward to.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

Since the dawn of time, God has done things that baffle humanity. He still confounds me... I can't control what happened, but I can control how I respond to what happened. It wasn't about what happened to me; it was about what happened within me.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

The picture of continually walking may be unpleasant and tiring to us. To constantly pay attention to our next step—always thinking about whether it's along the path of life or along the way of destruction—takes a lot of thought and effort. Wouldn't it be nice just to be able to get off the road and relax for a while? Or, as someone put it, "Lord, please give me the vacation of a second!

Most of life's battles are fought inside ourselves, & our greatest periods of growth usually come during crises.

the study of jurisprudence, by which I must earn my bread, has so withered and frozen the flowers of my fancy that they will never again seek the light. (To his Mother, November 11, 1829)

You can't sing Beethoven from the neck up --- you'll bleed! Beethoven is not precious. He's prodigal as hell. He tramples all over nicety. He's ugly, heroic; he roars, he lusts after beauty, he rages after nobility. Be ye not temperate!

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

So it's okay. Go out there bravely, and know the first good thing you do will be on the back of many bad things. So let the bad things count, and enjoy writing them too.

That is to say, things have a way of getting worse and worse all the time, until in the end they get so bad that we lack even the means of knowing how bad they really are.

In every man's life there is something he feels driven to do, something that pricks him at the core of his soul so long as it remains undone, and yet as he approaches the doing of it he will know fear, for perhaps to fulfill the obsession will bring him more pain than pleasure.

Because people fight most fiercely when they dare not admit even to themselves that their cause is unjust.