Quotes About Struggle

Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.

There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

I'm pretty cerebral, so I can occasionally rationalize emotional pain away, but when I can't, that's when I start to feel the fire inside take over and somehow manage to power through.

I'd have much rather gotten dragged into someone else's fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people's emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

I look at emotional pain as something we need to go through in order to grow and learn.

A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.

I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.

I am on an emotional roller coaster ride to survive and to conquer obesity, not only for myself but also for everyone that battles some kind of addiction.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.

The world laughed at any attempts we made to exist in it without pain.

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.