Quotes About Struggle

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.

Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help & happiness ahead.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.

Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

Sometimes people think if someone has depression, that person must be a broken Mormon. We believe that righteousness is happiness, but what happens when people are righteous and they're not happy?

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

I had little talent for happiness.

Even while you are in doubt, there will be an answer you will arrive to. Even while you are in pain, your happiness will be waiting.

It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

Christianity doesn't offer a smooth flight; it provides a safe landing. The promise of Jesus is not one of happiness, He promises righteousness.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.