Quotes About Struggle

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together

In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

A bad relationship is like drowning in an ocean. It's pulling you under, but then someone saves you, and they're like a floatie.

Hatred...Misunderstood...Betrayed... Etc etc. Are all things that I always faced in terms of friendship when they know the 'real' me.

I'm no stranger to learning the hard way and the day our friendship died it all became so clear that in life, we have to learn to keep the memories. And lose the people who helped us make them.

I meant to tell you the future looked bright, but all of a sudden we got into a fight.

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends...They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

Sometimes friends can let us down, but once in a while they are the only reason that we are standing up!

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.

Let's play a game of whose life sucks worse...I'll win, I always win

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

He broke promises, was abusive physically and mentally, never was around and caused my life to be a living hell.

Deadbeat dads are full of hatred, vengeance and spite. They plunge their kids into poverty, or deny them middle-class comfort, just to punish their former partners.

An old friend of mine once told me, stop feeding the snake around your neck, one day it will grow strong enough to strangle you. How did she know? Guess it takes a snake to know one.