Quotes About Struggle

Anyone who does not acknowledge the darkness in his nature will succumb to it...the lamp of conviction needs to be shaded by doubt, or it burns with a blinding light.

noble cause after all; maybe we were fighting against a cruel and vicious enemy that was in the service of an aggressive, hateful ideology with designs on enslaving other peoples and other countries; maybe—just maybe—we were doing the right thing.

I finished reading, not from the sweet, low pathos of the tale, but from the knowledge of the writer's success. It is so difficult to do anything well in this mysterious world.

He felt his poverty; without a cent, without a home, without land, tools, or savings, he had entered into competition with rich, landed, skilled neighbors. To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Expectant of greater things, We try climbing - Higher And Higher; An effort that costs us much, Leaving us short of breath To find only The ground below is much prettier.

When I was born it was Simon who they'd put once more into his arms, the dream of a child he could mold in his own image. It certainly wasn't me, a half-baked attempt at life, a rough sketch showing no familiar traits whatsoever.

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now... Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

We feel the thing we ought to be beating beneath the thing we are.

Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.

She loves him so but he didn't stay. The wind can't blow this storm away.

Algunas personas simplemente no están destinadas a estar en esté mundo. Es demasiado para ellos.

I alone knew what I had suffered. I alone knew what it felt like to be alive but dead.

Sing of my deeds Tell of my combats How I fought the treacherous demons Forgive my failings And bestow on me peace

Broken hearts mend. It's a lot harder to mend broken lives.

still behave as if they've been "colonized.

trauma suffered by women at home in violent "domestic captivity.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.

Every house has its own private cup of sorrow. (3)

Some of them are growing old, are worn with pitiless waves of fatigue, and are wholly unexpectant of reward in this world.

He must be really dead to need so desperately to feel alive.