Quotes About Struggle

school shootings, gang warfare, domestic violence, and racism and sexism. How can you possibly be hopeful for the

He said that history takes two steps forward and one step back.

He wanted a wife, but this chase, this dance one had to do to get a wife, was downright wearying. Perhaps that's why he'd been such a failure at finding a bride. He wanted it to be easy. To meet a girl, point a finger and say, "You're the one." And she would, of course, swoon as she said, "Yes, I'll marry you." Wasn't that the way it'd been done in years past? Arranged marriages were so much more practical.

uncomfortable.

Sometimes I think it's me. I think I must be doing something wrong, giving out subliminal messages so they can smell the desperation, read the neon lights on my forehead . . . "KEEP AWAY FROM THIS WOMAN, SHE IS LOOKING FOR COMMITMENT," but most of the time I think it's them. Bastards. All of them.

sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

For the first time in her life she found herself failing at something.

You discover something so awful, so life-changing, the only way you can cope is to jump straight into denial.

1 thought my entire life was coming apart, but 1 think 1 just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

When we are tired, everything seems so very much worse.

Luck is not on her side today. It wasn't on her side this morning when she woke up to hear a door slamming downstairs and her husband bel- lowing her name, and it isn't on her side now.

absolutely still at night, quiet and at peace, yet listen a little more carefully and you will hear the sounds of tossing and turning, of people struggling with dilemmas, of an inner turmoil that is anything but peaceful.

I had absolutely no idea what to say to him, this man I had struggled

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I don't know what materials scientists put in bombs but it seems as if they wouldn't need anything more than two personalities who don't get along so wonderfully.

but through accidents of birth, prejudice or illness were less able to help themselves, it was a harsh society where only the fittest survived.

As of the present chaos I could only hope that, by keeping faith, by still trying to give of one's best, a brighter, calmer day might one day.

Some who are fortunate enough to have communities still do fight to keep them, but they have seldom prevailed. While people possess a community, they usually understand that they can't afford to lose it; but after it is lost, gradually even the memory of what was lost is lost.

And the world must always seem to be either the Garden of Eden, from which he is about to be expelled, or a circle in hell, into which he has wandered like Dante or Orpheus only to find that he can't get out.

The will bakes bread the nature chokes on. The nature turns the wheel the will breaks on.

like a man who has jumped off a diving board, but then, through force of will, lowers himself inch by inch into the pool.

War is inevitable when the world is fallen. If you stop one, another will start. Redemption is the only path away from war.

Sometimes the thing that you wanted to do did make you sigh, just because it was a hard thing to do.

Everyone starved. Starvation is a potent weapon, and the Bolsheviks are happy to wield it. The cheapest way to get rid of the opposition is to starve them. Lenin did it the expensive way, shooting them, but the Soviets can no longer afford that.