Quotes About Struggle

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Daca inima omeneasca afla clipe de ragaz in timp ce urca pe culmile afectiunii, rareori se opreste pe povarnisul abrupt al sentimentelor dusmanoase

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity.

It's about more than just being beautiful. It's about having all of these uncomfortable feelings inside you and not knowing how to express them or deal with them.

But the fact is that she went away and left us all to cope with the wreckage she left behind.

Somewhere in that hour I lost all relation to a middle ground, and I didn't regain it for what became a very long time. In

some wounds aren't easy to see.

I'm not the same as you, father," he said quietly. And then once more he was shaken by great sobs, and screamed out in a voice of anguish, "I have eaten fairy fruit!

It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched made his fingers too sticky to be of the slightest use.

A class struggling to assert itself, to discover its true shape, which lies hidden, as does the statue in the marble, in the hard, resisting material of life itself, be different from the same class when chisel and mallet have been laid aside, and it has actually become what it had so long been struggling to be.

You are, so to speak, a bad sailor, and the motion of life makes you brain-sick.

I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.

The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Barefaced poverty drove me to writing verses.

As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.