Quotes About Struggle

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

Now when I was fifteen, oh I knew it was over The road to enchantment was not mine to take Cause lower calf, upper arm should be half what they are I was breaking the laws that the signmakers made. And all I could eat was the poisonous apple And that's not a story I was meant to survive I was all out of choices, but the woman of voices She turned round the corner with music around her, She gave me the language that keeps me alive

EVERYBODY AROUND HERE likes to pave their roads with good intentions," the already-was Daniel muttered, "but those roads never seemed to get me anywhere. So I built this one out of stupid mistakes instead.

Or worse, he could be born perfect, and then, through some error she would never perceive, grow up and destroy someone else's life--for there are thousands of ways to destroy someone's life, Sara knew, but to improve someone's life, there are so few, so few!

But you and I are the only ones who know we'll never get there, that nothing is ever over. I feel like I'm always falling. I've been falling without landing

The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

You'll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.

The story of Adam and Eve has less to do with evil than the cosmic human sadness that relationships are never straightforward, never pure enough.

I became my own worst enemy, conflicted about my right to ask, self-conscious about my rising anger, and too often stuck with the choice between fighting or just taking care of it, whatever it was, on my own.

It is a truism that motherhood makes many women feminist.

For a second, he was a little relieved. He would always rather deal with the murder of a drug addict. Addicts died young anyway.

This is a great theme. Boltzmann, writing in 1886 on the second law of thermodynamics, declared that available energy was the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

What I want to write is that I lay there until morning, with tear-stained eyes, a tear-stained pillow, a tear-stained life. What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register? I slept soundly.

Che si spezzi il cuore affidato ad un corpo che vuole e non vuole morire; anzi disvuole volendo la morte tacita e notturna, in una stanza nottivaga, libera da storie magica stanza inquieta nella mano palpitante e sincera la mano che calza la mattina, la copre le coperte sventagliate al sole che sta lì dinanzi al vento di albe e mattine

Quando si abbandona la strada certa per l'incerta anche gli amici ti abbandonano o i lettori che è peggio. Quando si parla solo a se stessi, con ossessa ripetizione della voglia di farsi male alle radici allora sì che resta solo chi vuole bere la cicuta fino in fondo...

Ellos quieren la revolución… y nosotros les daremos las reformas… tantas reformas… los ahogaremos en las reformas. ¡Oh mejor aun, los ahogaremos en las promesas de las reformas, porque ni siquiera esas les daremos!

Nunca se prestan cañones a quien puede servirse de ellos para disparar contra nosotros

Takav ni je teret u tom trenutku legao na dušu da sam mislio da ?u umrijeti. Ali, svemir nije tako milosrdan: pustit ?e te da umreš zbog zatrovanog zuba, udarca u glavu, zbog tu?e pogreške ili gluposti, ali te ne?e pustiti da umreš kad to poželiš, jer kad bi to dopuštao, živog bi?a u njemu više ne bi bilo.

In times of adversity, we can run away from God and let the enemy rule our circumstances or we can run to God and let Him work through our prayers to bring good out of evil. I

It's the squeeze we've endured that proves to the world that the final product is worth it. From

Nothing will encourage someone who is struggling more than your willingness to stand beside them and help sort it out with the wisdom God has given you.

Even when we are confused and struggle, if we will only stay in the conversation with God, He will take us where we need to go.

When do we most need peace? That becomes the cry of our heart when our life is in turmoil and battles are being waged against us. It is God who gives us a peace that passes all human understanding.

No matter what you are going through, only two parties ultimately matter in your spiritual life: God and you. Two is good company but three is a crowd.