Quotes About Struggle

Who can say the word love When everything--everything--pushes back with the promise To grind itself to dust?

And it's not the future their eyes see, But history. It stretches Like a dry road uphill before them. They climb it.

I am you, one day out of five, Tired, empty, hating what I carry But afraid to lay it down, stingy, Angry, doing violence to others By the sheer freight of my gloom, Halfway home, wanting to stop, to quit But keeping going mostly out of spite.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

I'm sick of the whole notion of the enduring female. GROW UP! 'Cause while you're going through your fifth puberty, the world is falling apart and I can't handle it! (Barbara Weston)

I was angry all the time about the future I didn't want with people I didn't like. But I didn't know what I wanted - so what else was there to do?

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

Life sucks, but work is really cool!

I think of this girl, this bright light coming from such a dark place. I know that the things she believes about God and the Bible and hope and all that are very real to her. They're not nice sayings on Twitter just to fill a box. They're the things she truly believes. I'm not sure I'm ready to rejoice, and I'm not quite ready to pray. The cool thing is that Marvel knows this. She knows this and doesn't seem to mind.

the Psalms speak to all seasons of our souls.

Faith, then, is an assertion of trust, even when our circumstances point in a direction that seems to call into question God's goodness.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.

The laces had broken and were so short that tying them was like performing surgery on an insect.

Reynie had helped Constance with her mittens (she was close to tears trying to get her thumbs in their places)

Milligan, having found nothing else to throw, had thrown himself.

felt increasingly bleary as a result of his late-night visits to the library. He could not help creeping downstairs to read each night, though. The temptation was too strong

Poor Kate," said Constance, "she's lost her marbles.

Of course these gifts were reckless extravagances for a family that was never more than a couple of dollars and a few days away from hunger, but that's how poor people cope with being marooned in poverty while all around them flows the frothy stream of the consumer culture.

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.

There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have.

It's hard to know, isn't it, whether the things we face are just because the world is full of sin and sinful people, or if God is working out a plan,' Grandma continued. 'I happen to think it's both. There's sin, but through it all, He takes the mess we make and paints a masterpiece. In fact, I'm quite certain that before God can ever bless a woman—and use her to impact many—He uses the hammer, the file, and the furnace to do a holy work.

Children often get angry when they face situations they can't control.

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...