Quotes About Struggle

History shows that when you attack the majority it usually doesn't work out well for the minority.

Most people would rather take the easy road than the high road.

My friend died of a broken heart . . . the cancer wasn't much help either.

Today's not my day . . . tomorrows not looking any better.

For enslaved people who had spent their entire lives under the shadow of the whip, without any military training of experience with guns, to one day pick up a firearm or a machete or even a rock and oppose a superior force must have taken an extraordinary level of nerve. The thirst for liberty was powerful enough to overcome even the fear of probable death.

In most part of the world, the notion of leadership is so masculine that most people will struggle to name one famous female business leader.

'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.

The angry man will defeat Himself in battle As well as in life.

obsessive-compulsive behavior? When we obsess, and obsess, and obsess, we eventually wear down our bodies to the point where the body just doesn't work anymore. If you are obsessive, your mind constantly runs away with you to a dark place, dwelling on the extreme and horrific. Instead, we're told:

Pleasure can invigorate a life and make it temporarily bearable, but pleasure cannot support a life.

others must exercise twice as much just to keep pace. Some people are predisposed

Now I understand why some species eat their young.

Even though Beethoven wrote this song when he was depressed about his hearing and was sleeping around with girls, it sounds like a happy song. Bright with... Youthful joy... Lightning...

There were many bloody period in human history, many of them occurring right here in North America.

Them little ol' priests, the things they did? Pooh! No wonder us Indian folk are all the shits.

In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

And she wanted to answer Ruby, wanted to say something intelligible and calm and hip and funny so the work could take precedence again. But the words got caught in the grind of her back teeth as she shred silk and canvas and paper and hair. The rip and shriek of silk prying her teeth apart. And it all came out a growling.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.

She wasn't meant for these scenes, wasn't meant to be sitting up there in the Southwest Community Infirmary with her ass out, in the middle of the day, and strangers cluttering up the treatment room, ogling her in her misery. She wasn't meant for any of it. But then M'Dear Sophie always said, "Find meaning where you're put, Vee." So she exhaled deeply and tried to relax and stick it out and pay attention.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living. Their conversation piece anyway.

So at twelve, I discovered that alcohol could dull pain and saw it as a friend. It was only in later years I realized that a friendship with a bottle can overnight turn into a relationship with the enemy.

The sense of security which she thought she had found disappeared; the bottom fell out of her world and she felt herself falling into an abyss of unbelieving despair.

Even if she had realized that she had a problem, she would not have cared. All she knew was that with each sip she took, the better she felt: her fear receded, her misery disappeared and her confidence grew.