Quotes About Struggle

Attempting to defeat the enemy by wrestling with people could be likened to trying to destroy a tree by picking all its fruit.

your life is what you make of it, with God's grace, the good and the bad.

When teens are trapped with parents who would rather flaunt their power than negotiate on even minor points, it doesn't always end so well.

Well, here's a little secret, kiddo - that's pretty much how everyone down here feels most of the time. But we keep walking anyway. We just keep moving forward. And if we're lucky, we find some people who don't mind stumbling around with us, and somehow that makes it a little easier to stay on our feet.

A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive, and at its ultimate extreme, self-destructive.

It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

Our real self is under siege by our anti-self.

Not all scars show. Not all wounds heal. Sometimes you can't see, the pain someone feels.

Most people don't need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves!

Because it's one thing to survive. It is much, much harder to truly live.

Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.

This was the pattern of my life: to love men who didn't deserve me, and, knowing that, to yearn for their love anyway.

humanity is a messy business, where knowing what is right doesn't necessarily preclude you from doing what is wrong.

Nur zu bald wirst du diesen Ort, dein Heimatdorf, verlassen. Du wirst durch Schmerz und Feuer und Hunger gehen, und ich kann nicht sagen, wie das Ende aussehen wird. Vielleicht wirst du am Ende nach Palästina kommen oder nach Amerika. Und dort wirst du deinen Kindern Geschichten aus deiner Kindheit erzählen, und sie werden diese Stadt für ebenso exotisch, ebenso fern halten wie Shanghai. Und nur zu bald werdensie fort von dir und in ferne Länder gehen wollen.

And when thoughts wiggle their way in, sometimes it can be very difficult for them to wiggle out again.

Trying hard and being a good person didn't always mean good things would happen to you. But it did mean that others might try on your behalf.

I don't know why I'm always screwing up at everything, even when I try so hard, all the time, not to. I'd do better if I could, I really would. But I don't know how. There are a lot of things I don't know.

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Sometimes pain stacked up, its weight crushing. Lifting it off to put life back together felt impossible.

Sometimes it's hard not to question. We spend our lives taking down the bad guys, trying to bring order to a world where injustice wins out more often than not. But neither can we blame God for man's choices. That's what always seems to help me hold on to my faith. The reality of God is bigger than the failings of man." "It's

Money was worthless, which meant putting food on the table required exhausting, hard work.

Fury would be her downfall, she'd been told...Fury would push her over the edge of sanity.

sewn together but always falling apart.

Her headache pounded painfully, the demons inside hitting their sharp fists against her skull, demanding to be set free.