Quotes About Struggle

We live in hard times. Trouble should become easier to handle as we are older, but by then we know that the world is not cruel, only indifferent, and that hurts even more.

wars are like love affairs—easy to start, hard to end, and outrageously expensive.

Après l'âge des légendes vient l'âge des ténèbres. Comme un fÅ"tus qui évolue. Puis vient l'âge de la sagesse – bien que certains mondes ne parviennent jamais à sortir de l'âge des ténèbres.

Nadie es inmune a las tormentas de la vida. Aunque esté haciendo todas las cosas bien y vaya en la dirección correcta, las tormentas le alcanzarán. La cuestión no es si las tendrá o no, sino cómo responderá.

Is it worth it?" Whether you are serving in a paid position or as a volunteer, ministry is hard. It carries a cost. Doing it right takes great expenditures of time, money, energy, and effort. Working with people can be frustrating. The enemy will creatively and relentlessly attack. You may face opposition and persecution. You won't make it if you haven't come to grips with the true motives for ministry. The highest motive for ministry is the worthiness of Jesus.

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now. GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you. THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what's happened to me.

We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows--a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination.

It's rare that people sail beautifully straight through their beautiful lives, always looking beautiful.

So what we are right now is a pair of dickweeds in a hotel room in Sydney. My life is royally fucked up right now and from where I'm sitting, your life is even bloody worse.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

after 60 days and nights of constant combat, 98 percent of all soldiers became psychiatric casualties.

Some psychiatric casualties have always been associated with war, but it was only in the twentieth century that our physical and logistical capability to sustain combat outstripped our psychological capacity to endure it.

seeing the elephant.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out...

Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.

Im not going to change my ways, just to please you or appease you, inside a crowd five billion proud willing to punch it out, right, wrong, weak strong, ashes to ashes all fall down.

If hate's the gate to peace This is the last stop

There are evil people, but they still came weeping from someone's vagina.

Caught by a wave, my back to the ocean It knocks me off my feet and Just as I find my footing Here you come again

Da qualche parte in mezzo alle urla, il dolore leggero al fianco, la colpa, la perdita, sento una spina graffiarmi la retina... o forse è dietro, dentro al mio occhio, in fondo.

I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.