Quotes About Struggle

As a young man he had shared a room with a painter whose paintings had grown larger and larger as he tried to get the whole of life into his art.[...]The swollen events of the night of the crescent knives reminded Nadir Khan of his room-mate, because life had once again, perversely, refused to remain life-sized.

The heart flutters. Life damages the living. None of us are ourselves.

how he was going to die for his verses, but could not find it in himself to call the death-sentence unjust.

I, too, have ropes around my neck, I have them to this day, pulling me this way and that, East and West, the nooses tightening, commanding, choose, choose. . . . Ropes, I do not choose between you. Lassoes, lariats, I choose neither of you, and both. Do you hear? I refuse to choose.

People didn't like [my persistent existence]. Because I should have died. Now that I've almost died, everybody loves me. . . . That was my mistake, back then. Not only did I live but I tried to live well. Bad mistake. Get fifteen stab wounds, much better.

Tik?jimas-Dievo dovana mums, o protas-m?s? paaugliškas maištas prieš j?. Suaug? mes visiškai atsid?sime tik?jimui, nes tam esame gim?.

This floor is a cold floor. I should get up off this floor. There's still a fat fellow over there, and he's pointing a pistol at my heart.

We seem to do little more than lurch between wanting and not wanting. Thus, the question naturally arises: Is there more to life than this? Might it be possible to feel much better (in every sense of better) than one tends to feel? Is it possible to find lasting fulfillment despite the inevitability of change?

Confusion and suffering may be our birthright, but wisdom and happiness are available.

We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy, fulfilling one desire after the next, banishing our fears, grasping at pleasure, recoiling from pain—and thinking, interminably, about how best to keep the whole works up and running

Our struggle to navigate the space of possible pains and pleasures produces most of human culture.

Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

I've had to overcome a lot of diversity.

Every golfer has a little monster in him. It's just that type of sport.

Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.

I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

If I cry, it means I'm too weak to compete in this sport. That's bull.

The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I'd known that I wouldn't have tried to hook it.

There have been many frustrating games. I don't there's going to be another one that isn't frustrating. That happens, but that's sport. Otherwise why would there be so much glory in victory.

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.