Quotes About Struggle

Well, let me make something perfectly clear (as Richard Nixon says on those old news clips about the Watergate scandal, right before he's about to fill the room with fog)I am not immortal. I've spent more than ten hours in the psych ward with Sarah Byrnes--really and truly the toughest person in our solar system--and I'll tell you what, if life can shoot Sarah Byrnes ot of the sky, it can nail me blindfolded.

These kids up here, they act like the toughest kids in in the world, just like me, but this is the first time I've ever seen under that toughness--in anybody else or in me. I'm really scared, because if I'm going to have a life, I'm going to have to act different, and I don't know if I can.

Then hearing Elvis today made me think I didn't have a lot to bitch about, but when I said that to Mr. Nak after group, he said, "Don't get to thinkin' just because some other guy's sinkin' in horse manure, the stuff up around your neck is chocolate puddin'. A wound is a wound, young Brewster. Remember that. Don't diminish the pain of your own just because you see some other gut-shot cowboy bleedin' to death.

He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.

Remember the first time your dad tried to teach you to drive on ice? How when the car started to slide you had to turn into the side while every nerve in your body said to turn the other way? I think life is like that a lot, way more than we know. And I think love is particularly like that. We think we're supposed to fight for it when we're really supposed to let go; you know, turn into it.

My dad leaves bruises on the inside.

Man, what kind of a fucked-up world is this? You should have to be a lot more than decent to be a kid's hero.

A student asked me recently why somebody always dies in my books. I said, because somebody is always dying in my life.

I'm sorry. I can't do this. I thought I could but I can't. My favorite professor at the university said he gets his piece of therapeutic information every time he boards an airplane. The flight attendant says if the oxygen mask drops down, be sure to put on your own before helping anyone with theirs. I'm afraid I haven't put mine on.

You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.

Perhaps modern esteem for these figures serves as a reminder that, though statesmen may have to struggle mightily to advance their cause, and though they may lose on an issue or come out on the wrong side in the judgment of history, their principled determination is sufficient to win them a place in people's hearts, long after they are gone.

All my good movies, nobody sees.

You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

God used it all. He used the hard times to draw her closer. He used the struggle to bring them together.

Wrap your heart around that the next time you go through a struggle," Clara said. "The goal of prayer is not to change God's mind about what you want. The goal of prayer is to change your own heart, to want what He wants, to the glory of God.

The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me to the mast.

A common expression among laid-off workers fifty-five years and older who are struggling to find work is "you don't even exist." You cobble a job here and a job there, always marginal to management. Apply for a job you're well qualified for and you'll probably never hear back from the employer.

Her stillness defeated his storm.

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

Cualquiera que crea que el dinero lo salva todo, no ha tenido nunca dinero… como yo en aquel tiempo.

The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it's the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear.

when life throws you a curveball, you will end up saying, "God, what are You doing to me?" We end up blaming God, as opposed to allowing the goodness of God to navigate us through the situation.

Billy was frantically hanging on as Poseidon used the middle tip of his trident to nudge him toward the island.

Time to embrace the suck, as his soldier friends say.