Quotes About Struggle

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started every day.

You hate men, you've hated Daddy for years, and the sad thing is that he hasn't known it. And the terrible thing is that you hate yourself so much that you just don't hate men or Daddy but you hate everything, animal, vegetable and mineral.

there is only one way out—up the chimney.' He

Both of us put up a brave front about it all, but a love affair, like some prodigy of plastic surgery, is flesh laid on to living flesh and to break it up is to tear off great hunks and parts of yourself.

In debate, especially when the dispute is hot and supercharged and freighted with ill will, I have always been the flabbiest of contenders. My voice breaks, becomes shrill; I sweat. I get a sloppy half-grin on my face. Worse, my mind wanders and then takes flight while the logic I possess in fair measure under more placid circumstances abandons my brain like an ungrateful urchin.

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of Is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. —Job

There is only one way out--up the chimney.

I turned away from a bearded face. I put Elsie Timson's holy book down a lavatory. At St Monica's School for Girls I sat in innocence, drinking cocoa with Miss Tample until Miss Tample became a monster. My father ran away, my mother was disgraceful. God is in this kitchen,' cried Mrs Eckdorf. 'God is revealing Himself through that sleeping woman.

have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves. We get in our own way.

The peace we can aspire to then is not a harmonious peace of the grave, nor a submissive peace of the slave, but a hardworking peace of the brave.

William W. Johnstone

William W. Johnstone

but I suppose it could be considered a necessary evil." "And you've got to admit, with the way things are going

There was an old saying about a rock and a hard place.

William W. Johnstone

measure, he put some slugs into a couple men rushing forward, tugging at their guns. They spun as they were hit, crying out and falling

to search for another handhold. A

At least, I did. And I think Chester did, too. In World War II. It's something every combat vet has to live with. Once a person has learned how to survive, and what must be done, that instinct lies just below the surface, very thinly covered with a civilized veneer.

William W. Johnstone

bring himself to leave her, even when

the bloodstained shirt he had taken off earlier

William W. Johnstone

William W. Johnstone

ISBN: 978-0-7860-3354-6 First electronic edition: August 2014