Quotes About Struggle

Life is full of misery and hardship, so grab your pleasures where you can.

You are but a hard turd in the ass of my journey.

over the last decade I had little

It is not all pleasure this exploration.

The strangest disease I have seen in this country seems really to be broken-heartedness, and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves. My attention was drawn to it when the elder brother of Syde bin Habib was killed in Rua by a night attack, from a spear being pitched through his tent into his side. Syde then vowed vengeance for the blood of his brother, and assaulted all he could find, killing the elders, and making the young men captives. He

To-day, the 27th April, 1873, he seems to have been almost dying. No entry at all was made in his diary after that which follows, and it must have taxed him to the utmost to write:— "Knocked up quite, and remain—recover—sent to buy milch goats. We are on the banks of the Molilamo." They are the last words that David Livingstone wrote.

wandering between two worlds, one lost, the other powerless to be born.

What are we all looking for? Happiness? One knows that doesn't last. Distraction, perhaps distraction from the ugly facts: that there is death, there is disease, there is impotence and senility ahead

my big depression. For six months I languished at the bottom of a deep hole, like the shaft of a waterless well, while kindly, puzzled people...peered down at me over the rim of the parapet and tried to cheer me up, or lowered drugs and advice in a bucket.

Let's face it - with a few exceptions, nobody likes anybody.

Part One ALWAYS HUNGRY, NEVER LOSING WEIGHT In 1905, during his term as secretary of war, William Taft weighed 314 pounds. On his doctor's advice, Taft began a low-calorie/low-fat diet and exercise program bearing striking similarity to standard weight loss treatment today. Soon, he reported feeling "continuously hungry." At his presidential inauguration three years later, Taft weighed 354 pounds.1

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

God doesn't ask the impossible. He sees our weakness and our struggles. He looks at our heart more than at our behavior. If he sees that we want to love him, want to believe in him, and want to follow his way — but are just unable right now to do it — he has patience with us. He encourages us to do whatever we can, and to keep trying.

I feel surpris'd at my own composure," he noted, "and am more disposed to impute it to despair than resignation.

If this world is hell, one can only have compassion for those who are obliged to live in it and breathe its poisonous air.

This rejection, this cold unthinking hate. How much it pains him, like a slap against a burnt patch of skin, even after all these years. The unkindness of strangers.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.

God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.

God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.