Quotes About Struggle

voler vivere e morire in mezzo agli uomini é segno di grave debolezza

Para um escritor, o progresso em direcção ao desprendimento e à libertação é um desastre sem precedentes: ele, mais do que ninguém, precisa dos seus defeitos: se triunfa sobre eles, está perdido. Ele que se abstenha portanto de se tornar melhor, pois, se o conseguir, arrepender-se-à amargamente.

Maybe the important thing is to keep trying, no matter how hard it feels.

But what if scrambling to pay the bills takes every minute of your day, every ounce of your creativity? What if you can't afford an au pair? What if you can't even afford an ordinary babysitter?

All over the world, approximately every five seconds, another perfectly intelligent woman gets sucked in like this, the victim of maternal instincts or female hormones, or maybe just a heart that keeps overruling her head.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

I have a lot of sympathy for Gollum. By Claire Davis, author

Over a decade since her heart was not just broken but crushed, so why can't she get over it? Ben doesn't understand; she knows he's been in love before and got hurt, but he was able to let go of his pain and move forward. Why can't I?

I should leave Stuart. I have tried. On numerous occasions. But I'm a coward, I guess. Despite everything, I love him. When he's not in a temper he's the sweetest man. He makes me feel protected and safe. And it's not as though he beats me up.

The truth wouldn't set her free. Far from it. The truth was a Pandora's box and she had to keep the lid firmly closed

You've rowed again?' I can hear the disapproval in her voice. 'Em … you can't go on like this.

We tell our daughters we don't trust them in a thousand ways. We don't consciously mean to, but we steal their confidence in their own strength by stealing their pain. And their confidence in our strength by saying we aren't strong enough to see them struggle.

There are lots of ways to lose yourself—motherhood's just one of them.

Maybe faith was having the humility to scream at God and the audacity to get up off the floor.

Are you a degenerate, Fisher?" "I'm working on it.

Faith isn't really faith until it's beat up and put through a fire. When you're crushed, you feel like you're dying. But you're actually coming to life. When you're broken, that's when the best of you comes out.

In the world, when someone looks at a person like Julia they think weak. They think lazy. They see the fat and they know exactly how she got that way. Even the most politically-correct individual knows it deep down, but bites their tongue in public. We all know what it means, to be fat, to fail.

iki insan hayat?n herhangi bir an?nda bir ?eyi nadiren ayn? anda ister. Bazen insan olman?n en zor yan? budur.

When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour's house, whose light was on.

There are tears there but she is too proud to blink and let one fall. If she blinked, he would take her hand and take her away from this place. This, at least, is what he tells himself. It's what she once wanted but two people hardly ever want the same thing at any given point in life. It is sometimes the hardest part of being human.

What was it all for? Furlong wondered. The work and the constant worry. Getting up in the dark and going to the yard, making the deliveries, one after another, the whole day long, then coming home in the dark and trying to wash the black off himself and sitting into a dinner at the table and falling asleep before waking in the dark to meet a version of the same thing, yet again.

he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed,

It would be the easiest thing in the world to lose everything.

Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.