Quotes About Struggle

It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.

Difficulties, disappointments, discouragements, and suffering are a part of every work experience, but they need not be seen as obstacles to God's purposes in our lives.

All too often I viewed my work as an obstacle to my spiritual growth.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their county; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation with us, the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

When we appear to be "more a loser than a victor" on the Path it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we are growing spiritually.

The war we must must win is fought within.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling.

Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.

Every guy liked to think that his demons were meaner and crazier than anybody else's.

Coincidence only carries so far, and then you just have to figure that the universe wants to fuck you up as much as possible

It will finish badly when she dries out, I suppose, and probably end with madness, but almost everything does.

They walk the wire across the chasms of their own souls, looking down into the great depths as, step by step, they cross to the distant side. On occasion they've learned something by the time they get there, but not always, and usually not what they expect.

They'd read comic books and crossed wooden swords and flipped baseball cards against the walls, while floors above people lay strapped to their beds for trying to gouge their own eyes out.

We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

I close my eyes, and this image floats beside me. A sweaty toothed mad man with a stare that pounds my brain. His hands reach out and choke me, and all the time he's mumbling. "Truth, truth." Like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. You push it, stretch it, but it'll never be enough. You kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying, to the moment we leave dying, it'll just cover your face, as you wail and cry and scream.

He had been dispossessing Arabs for twenty-five years, Kalvarisky said. It was not easy work, especially for a man like him, who did not see the Arabs as a flock of sheep but rather as human beings with hearts and souls.

As with national revolutions elsewhere, both peoples in Palestine tended to put nationalism above democracy and human rights.

I spent a long time trying to come to grips with my doubts, when suddenly I realized I had better come to grips with what I believe. I have since moved from the agony of questions that I cannot answer to the reality of answers that I cannot escape, and it's a wonderful relief.

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

The fates lead her who will; who won't they drag.

The universe has always conspired to fuck me up.

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.