Quotes About Struggle

Granpa just groaned and said, "I don't want you to end up workin' in the East End, young 'un. You're far too good to be a barrow boy for the rest of your life." It made me sad to hear him speak like that; he didn't seem to understand that was all I wanted to do.

Are you all right, my luv?" asked a lady who had moved from the other side of the carriage to sit next to Old Jack. "Yes, thank you," he said, the tears streaming down his face. "It's just that I was released from prison today.

and, as there wasn't enough breakfast to go round, she set out hungry on the long walk to the docks.

Jeffrey Archer

humans have a profound ability both to cooperate and nurture and to shun others and fight.8 In our advanced technological age, with the capacity of our weapons to end human life, our ability to master our baser emotions and channel them toward constructive and cooperative outcomes will provide the basis for our survival.

he has trouble separating from his family for even short periods of time. He cannot grow up and leave home. He has a fused self.

Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

The trees like lungs filling with air My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair

Scars crossed her welded wrists.

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, Stay there. Don't move.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special--and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence.

When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.

They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.

that since Cecilia's suicide, the Lisbons could hardly wait for night to forget themselves in sleep.

Chucking her under her chin, he said, What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets. And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: Obviously, Doctor, she said, you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.

When asked why she had tried to kill herself, she said only, It was a mistake.

between addiction and depression? Depression a lot worse. Depression ain't something you just get OFF of. You can't get CLEAN from depression. Depression be like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your MIND. You just got to be careful not to touch where it hurts. It always be there, though.

This, Tolstoy says, is our human predicament: we're the man clutching the branch. Death awaits us. There is no escape. And so we distract ourselves by licking whatever drops of honey come within our reach.

When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, Buffeted but not broken.

The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced.

This whole country's stolen.

I went to church. It didn't help. In those days that was the best place to meet a girlfriend. In church! All of us praying to be different.