Quotes About Struggle

Suffering is so real & I walk amongst so many who have no idea how much my soul is aching to be healed.

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.

There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.

When I looked upon the surface of the gently flowing water, each painting that I had burned upon joining the church rose from the waves. I tried to grab them, but they dissolved upon touch.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

Man in Canadian art is rarely in command of his environment or ever at home in it.

What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?

Art is difficult transient is her reward.

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

I want to seize fate by the throat.

The tougher the fight, the more important the mental attitude.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

Mike Tyson always had a big heart, but one of his problems is that he's short. And he's got kind of a personal attitude. But that don't make him a great fighter.

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

I'm an easy person to get along with. Even when I struggle, I have the same attitude.

India has struggled with the inadequacy of modern energy for a long time. Noncommercial energy commonly known as "biomass"—wood and agricultural and animal waste—has been the fuel for more than half of India's population. In terms of commercial energy, India depends on coal for over half of its total energy, and almost 75 percent of electricity.

in a country in which almost three hundred million people live on the equivalent of $1.25 a day, poverty and economic growth cannot be separated from energy. The energy issues India faces reflect, in a giant-sized way, those of many developing countries.

We are so small; and what must one hold on to when one no longer recognizes one's own hands, nor one's step, nor even the small dose of everyday despair.

I know that I too could try a story out, rebuild mine, make it live again several minutes before the full of the day, the sun, the city. But I haven't the strength, stupidly. I rise and carry on. One more time.