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Quotes About Struggle

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
~ Jewish proverb
Adversity is the first path to truth...
~ Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1819
It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it.
~ William Faulkner
You must be at the end of your rope. I felt a tug.
~ Author Unknown
I am having an out-of-money experience.
~ Author Unknown
When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your teeth.
~ Proverb
Being a watery sign Scorpios are always at war within themselves...
~ Author Unknown
You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.
~ S.A. Sachs
Being abandoned doesn't make for little angels.
~ Margaret Way
One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.
~ Theodore Millon
The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age- when you are going through something like that – the genre is so meaningful.
~ Mae Whitman
It is the fight alone that please us, not the victory.
~ Blaise Pascal
I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.
~ Mercedes Lackey
No one help you in our difficult times. Nowadays remember that we should start learning how to fight alone.
~ Shubam Shaw
I have moments where I feel incredibly ugly or fat, and it sucks, you know? I'll usually try to keep a positive attitude because I'm really so grateful for where I am and the life I get to live, but I definitely have to work hard not to feel insecure.
~ Charlotte McKinney
I want to help transgender individuals who might be struggling realize that they have to love themselves and stay true to who they are because if they keep moving forward, and keep a positive attitude, then things will get better.
~ Jazz Jennings
I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.
~ Joel Osteen
I used to think you took my breath away, but then I realised I was just suffocated by your bullshit. Rainbows always come after the darkest storm.
~ Demi Lovao
Life breaks all of us sometimes…but…some grow strong at broken places.
~ Ernest Hemingway.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
~ H. L. Mencken
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
~ H. L. Mencken
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
~ H. L. Mencken
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.
~ H. L. Mencken
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
~ H. L. Mencken