Quotes About Struggle

Oscar Wilde's advice, "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life.

The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up all the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins." [Quote attributed to Neale Donald Walsch]

And when—despite your best efforts—you feel like you're losing at the game of life, remember: Even the best of the best sometimes feel this way.

We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."–Chuck Palahniuk Famed American author, best known for Fight Club

It's easy to convince yourself that things need to be hard, that if you're not redlining, you're not trying hard enough. This leads us to look for paths of most resistance, often creating unnecessary hardship in the process.

Si produces bastantes ideas malas, se te ocurrirán algunas buenas «La gente con dificultades para tener buenas ideas, si te cuenta la verdad, te dirá que tampoco tiene muchas ideas malas.

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X,

Kurt Vonnegut said about his process: "When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth." Don't overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. And you are not alone.

There are only four stories: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power, and the journey. Every single book that is in the bookstore deals with these four archetypes, these four themes.

qué genios tan torturados son. No me convence…

Como si la dificultad y el esfuerzo y la tortura confirieran de algún modo seriedad al trabajo que has elegido.

La guerra del arte es uno de esos trabajos que te hacen exclamar

Everyone struggles. Take solace in that.

no one belongs to anyone. We're all cut off at birth with a knife and left at the mercy of strangers. You hear that? Strangers. I know what you want to do. I know you're going to go away to be a soldier. Well-you can go to hell. I'm not responsible. I'm just another stranger. Birth I can give you-but life I cannot. I can't keep anyone alive. Not anymore.

He took his aim. His arm wavered. His eyes burned with sweat. Why didn't someone come and jump on his back and make him stop? He fired. A chair fell over in his mind.

I let one of the men rename me. A man gave me the name Rose – you didn't know that, did you, Poke?…He said, this man, he said that Kwan was too hard to remember, even though it's a good name and it means 'spirit,' and that the rose was the queen of flowers and I was the queen of Patpong." She laughs, rough as a cough. "The queen of Patpong. A kingdom of whores and viruses. Death with a smile.

These kids, most of them, they were really hapless." The word stopped me, and Tyrone gave me a victor's grin. "Hapless," he said. "As in, not possessing any hap.

these men signed up all those years ago for the full five-course meal, including the bitter dessert, and they got to this point without ever doing anything to push back from the table and use their lives to accomplish something useful.

Few Indians or castes fought to forge a new nation called Mexico; such a scheme would have made little sense, and held little interest, for them. They fought in the hope that their lot in life might in some way improve. The

The strong times, the weak times-- they all come in waves. Trust me, none of us has it together.

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues and it has not helped.