Quotes About Struggle

I have stopped painting. I stand in front of the easel, brush in hand, but my mind is blank. It is as if I have been struck by a strange kind of blindness.

I regret the way pain has taught me nothing.

We want desperately to believe that no matter what life we've led, at the end we can pull off a victorious and elegant exit.

I can't go to another country, Salva thought. If I do, my family will never find me.

We can't, little cricket. It is against the law to fly this flag - even to put up a picture of it. Korea is part of the Japanese Empire now. But someday this will be our own country once more. Your own country.

The boy was still looking at him. "Your family?" he asked. Salva shook his head. "Me, too, " the boy said. He sighed, and Salva heard that sigh all the way to his heart.

Fight hard and fight well. But know that a quest for justice without wisdom and compassion can all too easily become cruelty.

Nya could see the questions in her mother's face every morning: Would they be lucky again? Or was it now their turn to lose someone?

People, families, organizations in marginalized communities struggle everyday; it is a way of life that is necessary for survival, and when theorized and mobilized can become a powerful strategy for transformation

Struggle can be mobilized as resistance and as transformation. It can provide the means for working things out 'on the ground', for identifying and solving problems of practice, for identifying strengths and weaknesses, for refining tactics and uncovering deeper challenges.

I wasn't anybody at all. And I began to get afraid that all at once maybe my eyes would break open like soap bubbles and everybody would see there wasn't anything there, just a vile mess. And I was afraid that maybe the rot inside me would break out in sores and warts, screaming: 'traitor, sinner, imposter.'" Part

The image of identity we must daily fight to impress on the neutral, or hostile, world collapses inward: we feel crushed. Burdened

Possibly from the outside this looks determinedly individual. Nobody realises what a mess of loneliness and inadequacy I am inside.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.

Heath Ledger once said to me, 'It's built you up to knock you down and that's all it is.

he was reluctant to return to New York, a town less supportive of his sort of art.

Our general was elsewhere, but we drowned. While he rested, he shipped us home with the bulk of? his spoils that had weighed his army down. The thrashing storm that caught us cracked the hulls and made us offerings to the sea floor?-- a rain of statues, gold, and men.

We managed to make a good night of it, in the desperate way people do when the choice is between dogged survival or sliding under the morass.

I sensed it was finally safe to ask the question without seeming like an ingrate. God? Where were you? For 107 days where were you? Where were you in my unconsciousness and where were you in that hospital room when I wanted to feel your presence with fireworks and explosions of emotions and supernatural palpability? Where were you, God? [...] I was there, my child, [...] I was the peace, I was the breath, I was the comfort.

It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

Angels invite themselves, but you invite your own demons.

Going insane is the mind's way of coping with insanity.