Quotes About Struggle

Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by," Kerouac wrote. "Trails are like that: you're floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you're struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak… just like life.

Because that's the ugly truth about heroism: the tests don't start when you're ready or stop when you're tired.

You were amazing," Scott said. "Yeah," I said. "Amazingly slow." It had taken me over twelve hours, meaning that Scott and Arnulfo could have run the course all over again and still beaten me. "That's what I'm saying," Scott insisted. "I've been there, man. I've been there a lot. It takes more guts than going fast.

Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

My arms floated until my hands were rib-high; my stride chopped down to pitty-pat steps; my back straightened so much I could almost hear the vertebrae creaking.

But there's a problem,' Dr. Bramble said. He tapped his forehed. 'And it's right up here.' Our greatest talent, he explained, also created the monster that could destroy us.

There is a natural order. The way things are meant to be. An order that says that the good guys always win. That you die when it's your time, or you have it coming. That the ending is always happy, if only for someone else. Now at some point it became clear to us that our path had been chosen and we had nothing to offer the world. Our options narrowing down to petty crime or minimum wage. So, we stepped off the path, and went looking for the fortune that we knew was looking for us.

People, generally, suck.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

Each of us, desperately clutching his identity amid the impalatable onward pour of Time and Thought, finds only in art-and chiefly in written art- means to halt that ceaseless, cruel drift.

Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.

There are two Mississippi Valleys. One is wet, the other dry. The river made the wet valley by flooding it with dirty water and filling it with mud. People made the dry valley by draining it of water and hardening mud into dirt. The two valleys exist in uneasy tension, the wet valley always ready to burst into the dry valley that holds it down.

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.

Restfully reassured by his new friends, Joseph now nominated God in a new light, 'Man is God hesitant and God is Man hesitantly trying to help.

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

The night is darkest before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.

We carry in our worlds that flourish, our worlds that have failed.

The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.

Just like when there's a time that a smart person knows enough is enough, there's a time when you know you've got to fight.

Hoping is such hard work. It tires you out and you never seem to get any kind of reward. Hoping feels like you're a balloon that has a pinhole that slowly leaks air.

Christopher Paul Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis

Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.