Quotes About Struggle

It was a language he had learned too late for it to come naturally to him. He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent. The

Orson Scott Card

Lared sat before the fire, watching the flames trying to escape up the chimney, always dying before they quite made it out. *

It's what I'm most afraid of. That I really am a monster. I don't want to be a killer but I just can't help it.

Binecuvantati cei ce sunt binecuvantati numai de boli de boli clasificabile. Binecuvantati saracii, bolnavii, cei tradati in iubire, caci cei din jur stiu macar ce-i cu ei si le vor asculta cu simpatie vaicarelilor. Dar intelege oare suferinta exilului cel ce nu a indurat-o?

Je n'ai pas un amour particulier pour l' ouvrier idéalisé tel que se le représente l'esprit bourgeois du communiste, mais quand je vois un véritable ouvrier en chair et en os en conflit avec son ennemi naturel, l'agent de police, je n'ai pas besoin de me demander de quel coté je suis.

Do you have a situation in which you're having trouble discerning whether God is protecting you or Satan is hindering you? Ask God to show you His way.

I can resist anything except temptation.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him...

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.