Quotes About Struggle

Nothing can drive one closer to his own insanity than a haunting memory refusing its own death.

When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.

Dethroning Jesus seeks to determine whether we have the right to get to that kind of a discussion or whether Lessing's ditch is so great that we should simply throw up our hands and do the best we can to muddle through.

If it is all up to me to live a consistently whole and healthy spiritual life, then the dry bones of my dry soul will not live. If it is all up to preachers like you and me to keep a local congregation alive in community and ministry, then we may as well close the doors right now. If it is all up to you, me and all the other preachers alive today to bring about a moral revolution breaking the chains that bind us, then our world is doomed.

Only when you have experienced the dark side of mindfulness, will you meet loneliness.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.

For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.

Dramatic art is about nervous, frightened, anxious, on-edge people. Good characters are forever in trouble.

Men are taught to offer help, but too often we don't know how to receive it, not even from the most natural places.

The unnecessary burden of living a life of trying to please others, which is essentially impossible, nearly killed me.

frustration,

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

The harder I push, the further I fall.

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

That's easy for you to say! You're just a kid. You don't know what a rotten, horrible place this world can be. It can be so cold...so cruel...so unforgiving..." "Papa...That's why we need to be good.

John] Harrison [could not] express himself clearly in writing.... No matter how brilliantly ideas formed in his mind, or crystallized in his clockworks, his verbal descriptions failed to shine with the same light.... The first sentence [of his last published work] runs on, virtually unpunctuated, for twenty-five pages." Dava Sobel, Longitude, p66

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball

The remote control had 48 buttons. No resident of the Old Farts Senile Dying Center knew how to operate it. They were the Greatest Generation, men and women who had survived the Depression, defeated the Nazis, built America into the greatest nation the world had ever seen. But this damned gizmo had beaten them.

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

Mankind is unkind, man.

In my experience, you never get silver linings without clouds. Even then I knew enough of the world to understand that inner circles are always heavily fortified against newcomers, and royal favor always arouses jealousy.