Quotes About Struggle

So many worthless people relying on French protection are enabled to sin against me with impunity, and nobody now feels that he has any duties toward me; everybody does as he pleases and is actuated by base and selfish motives. I have thus lost more than two-thirds of a fortune that was never very considerable. That is hard, but harder than everything else is my present condition.

How many neighbors ignoring Jolly for her ignorance and bad luck could go down on their knees and save their kid from choking to death this afternoon while the world was going on outside in the sunshine?

What does the cross mean?" I ask him. "Crucifix. I don't know exactly. Jesus hanging in agony, nailed to boards. But it's a reminder." "Of what?" "Well. Of—Well, evil. That evil's always gonna be around, and you deal with it.

Car horns honk way down on the street. Human life: honking, honking wanting everything to go our way.

He could add something to the list of things you weren't supposed to do. Don't get hurt, don't get dirty, don't get drunk, don't get scared, don't count on it. You ended up doing all of them.

every generation of people thinks they are growing up into a harder time. She thinks maybe it makes them feel better about the struggle they have leaving their childhood behind.

Anyone who goes against the conventions of their time will experience heartache. People fear change, Carrie, and they fight the things they are afraid of.

We only truly fight to make changes when we believe in those changes with all our heart. You have to want your dream badly enough to hold on through the rough times.

Many women have become teachers who never should have, because it's more appealing than working in the mills or in the fields. Yet, their students suffer." "Because

People don't like to be pushed into a corner. When they are, they lose sight of what they are fighting about. They simply fight to get out of the corner.

Trustin' done take a lifetime, Rose girl. Every time, it seems like you got to learn it again. But it gets to be some easier. You finally figure out that God does really love you. Then the trustin' get easier. God done already know how you feel. Let him take you through the hard times. He'll teach you to trust...

Those who fight the purposes of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, and they always will be, beaten.

People don't like to be pushed into a corner. When they are, they lose sight of what they are fighting about. They simply fight to get out of the corner. At that point, reason loses all power to affect change. It becomes as futile an effort as trying to push back the tide.

Strident voices everywhere were fighting to be heard, and just as it so often happened in the past, the voices that shouted the loudest were the ones heard best. The voices that fed on fear and prejudices drowned out all else.

Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

In the sixties, a power struggle started which still hasn't been won.

Problems are not the problem: coping is the problem.

felt the sting of rejection.

Death is the enemy…. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Michel en a marre d'être seul. Alors il s'est amputé d'une partie de son cerveau, histoire de ne pas voir la fille comme elle était: une emmerdeuse de premier ordre.