Quotes About Struggle

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There's only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.

A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.

Even though the injury has faded, I still see it the way it was right after the accident: raw and red, a jagged lightning bold splitting the symmetry of my face. In this, I suppose I'm like a girl with an eating disorder, who weighs ninety-eight pounds but sees a fat person staring back at her from the mirror. It isn't even a scar to me, really. It's a map of where my life went wrong.

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.

But there was a part of her that wondered what would happen if she let them all in on the secretthat some mornings, it was hard to get out of bed and put on someone else's smile; that she was standing on air, a fake who laughed at all the right jokes and whispered all the right gossip and attracted the right guy, a fake who had nearly forgotten what it felt like to be real…and who, when you got right down to it, didn't want to remember, because it hurt even more than this.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

If we are meant to only have children who never encounter difficulty in life, then no one should be born.

You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.

How far can a person go... and still live with himself.

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

You okay in there? No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.

Ninety percent of my work is crap, " he continued. "Another nine percent is mediocre, and then there are those rare gems that are actually useable.

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking.

Torn clothes are funny … until your dad gets fired.

The accomplishment of your dreams will demand big sacrifice and hard work.

Being a superhero is hard work. You have to save the world. But going to school is even harder. You have to save yourself.

I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.

It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you're new at this — and by 'new at it, ' I mean 15 years in, or even 20 — you're just starting to get traction.