Quotes About Struggle

What would I do in such a place? Die, I expect.

But in an unfamiliar house, when you're uncertain where you're going, every movement is prolonged by the sense that you're going to try the wrong door or get in someone's way and bother someone.

What nobody knew about the docile girl from Osogbo was that her heart was too heavy, and that almost from birth she had felt its weight, a gravitational pull that invited her to her grave. Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.

times the girl offered her hand, her mother refused it. It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.

I was always weak in the head—that must be it. I can't seem to care anymore about what I'm supposed to do.

I now have to choose between son and husband. But I have made my decision and I have to be strong. I must leave my boy and share my life – or my death – with my husband.17

H)is action was merely "galvanizing the corpse" of an army that was already in retreat and heading for defeat.

These arguments were, in his eyes, 'reactionary'; they subverted his insistence on relentless class war leading to the violent overthrow of the tsarist order.

I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.

Being an immigrant is not for sissies

Being an immigrant is not for the admin-phobic.

To the struggling-self, it is a prison; to the awakening-Self, it is classroom

When you're troubled and worried and sick at heart And your plans are upset and your world falls apart, Remember God's ready and waiting to share The burden you find much too heavy to bear. So with faith, let go and let God lead the way Into a brighter and less troubled day.

When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heart And your plans are upset and your world falls apart, Remember God's ready and waiting to share The burden you find much to heavy to bear-- So with faith, "Let Go and Let GOD" lead your way Into a brighter and less troubled day

The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human soul can long ignore "the giant agony of the world" and live, except indeed the mollusc life, a barnacle upon eternity.

There are natures doomed to be unfortunate, to find the bitter in the sweet.

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

Women often suffer most not from the original source of pain, but from being told that it shouldn't upset them so much. This leaves them fighting an exhausting inner battle to hide and "manage" their feelings around other people who want them to pretend to feel better, often because they can't cope with seeing them in pain. Feelings

i go through life watching the english language being raped before me face, like miniver cheevy, i was born too late. and like miniver cheevy i cough and call it fate and go on drinking.

I needed a wife, goddamnit, someone to take care of me while I took care of business. But I was the wife. And mother. So

Life there had been grim, but he had a maid, a woman who took care of him and cooked for him and even bathed him. Lucky bastard. There were times when I wanted to throw his book across the room, I was so jealous of his freedom. What was a political prisoner compared with being a full-time mother? But

Sometimes a person had to do certain things in order to survive the hard life of a single woman with a heavy burden of responsibility to bear.

he went on strike and withdrew into the sulking corner of the religiously disappointed.