Quotes About Struggle

Il significato della sua vita era un'inafferrabile vena d'acqua centinaia di metri sotto la superficie, e periodicamente lui calava un secchio nel pozzo, lo riempiva, lo tirava su e beveva. Ma questo non lo sosteneva molto a lungo.

Cancer walked all over my father, in large part because he opened the door, turned on the porch light, and invited it in heartily--You old bastard! Come in and have a vodka tonic!

I know that at your age you can feel powerless, and that powerlessness can make you angry.

This book is a form of struggle, and it keeps my spirit alive to struggle. To struggle is to strengthen my faith, my hope and my belief in humanity.

That small act of noticing him when no one else did. That brief act of caring. Just one person seeing another's struggle and bringing them to their feet again. It was the difference between a cold world of being forever apart and a world where one could feel bound to another. Obligated to kindness.

she knew he would not rest until he had done it. It was maddening. It was strange, even. But then again, she thought, it gave their marriage a certain epic scope.

That day at school I prayed for the world to end.

I believed that I was alone in my struggle and that my battle was one of survival. By

I knelt down, trying to put the many pieces of the letter back together again. It was impossible. I dumped the pieces of the letter in the trash, wishing my life would end. I truly believed, at that moment, that death would be better than my prospects for any kind of happiness. I was nothing but an "It.

That day I wished Mother would have mercy and kill me quickly. As

After years of struggle, my purpose became clear; for above all, I came to realize that America was truly the land where one could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

I gave up on everything in my life, including escaping my misery through my school-work. Upon

Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence. I cringed with hate whenever I heard other children laughing, as they played outside.

I warn you, the trip will not be easy. Once you choose to walk in the light, your path will lead you places you do not want to go.

People who live with OCD drag a metal sea anchor around. Obsession is a break, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.

To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.

People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.

You do not understand -- no accomplishment overcomes the stigma of being different. [...] I try not to think about it and cannot eat my supper or nothing. I didn't understand it at first. But now I do. You are not different in the way difference is acceptable but in another, bigger way.

When she stamped her foot, it made a strange thud on the desolate beach. Like a heartbeat.

Some people just have more of a chance than others, and some just have to take the chances that they have. I know a lot of people who were more unfortunate than Jerry Bines, who turned out much better-

David Adams Richards

to speak, felt weak, and fell in front of her. She got

We fought so hard against the small things that we became small ourselves. —EUGENE O'NEILL

Boy, that was an amorphous blob of undoability!