Quotes About Struggle

Eventually, my tears give out, my voice goes, and my throat is so raw that my body battles against my mind and shuts down my crying. There is nothing left in me now.

One negative thing seems like it overrides a thousand positives. In a sea of love, all you see is the one person drowning.

The only thing that stands between you and your dreams is the fact that they are all illegal, immoral, and disgusting. Dream on, you little pervert!

No one gets through life unscathed.

She'd love to see those status updates. Got strapped to the roof of the car today for a trip to Starbucks. Would have loved to taste caramel mocha, but can't move arms and so was forced to stare longingly at delicious, hot beverage. Will the taunting never end?

I am still trying to glue together the broken pieces of this person I love. He manages his tortured side with remarkable skill, but even Chris, with his endless supply of strength and clarity, could not survive all that he did without scars.

È questo il problema! Non ci arrivi? Lui ha già fatto tutto!» È sempre più agitato. «Cazzo, Christopher Shepherd ha protetto tutti noi e a me non ha lasciato niente da fare! Si è sottoposto alle torture peggiori che ci infliggeva mio padre e non mi ha mai permesso di ripagarlo.»

Life is not fair, but it is what we have to deal with. And we are going to deal with it so that we can live. No, so that we can thrive.

You can't drown when you know how to float." Chris says nothing for a few minutes. "Maybe. But the water is pretty calm today. There could always be a storm." He rubs my shoulders. He breathes against me. He waits. "It's hard to float in a storm.

Finn Is God More disruptive than living in my house? You're clearly unbalanced.

This is all sorts of fucked up." "I know, baby. I know. But the best kind of fucked up.

There is so much gray between the black and the white and this is where most of us live, trying, but so often failing, to bend towards the light.

I want to say, she begins again, I want to say that I have not always tried hard enough to know. That this 'moral compass' Claire talks about may not have been as helpful in my own personal life as it was in the wider political context. Sometimes it is easier to see clearly from a distance. And what is up close -- what is up close -- she falters -- is harder to make out. In the audience someone coughs. There is so much gray between the black and the white ... and this is where most of us live.

Whatever you are going through, the sun will come out.

How can I be my best if I never fail, and how can I ever find peace if I never yell.

I was like a lot of women who get their wish: I loved being a mom, I just didn't love being me.

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in

I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.

I believe we forget who we are over time, and in our state of forgetfulness we struggle and employ all kinds of learned behaviors that don't necessarily help us or bring us happiness. Each of us has a self that exists undamaged and whole, from the moment we are born waiting to be reclaimed.

Well in case you failed to notice, In case you failed to see, This is my heart bleeding before you, This is me down on my knees These foolish games are tearing me apart Your thoughtless words are breaking my heart You're breaking my heart

Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen. And, still it makes no difference. It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. And you know that if it ever did relent...it would not be because it cared.

My problem is that the human race seems to want to be destroyed!

With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.

A woman who had fallen out of love with her life