Quotes About Struggle

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

The weak ones are there to justify the strong.

Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.

When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I've really been doing is running?

My heart's a dance of fear.

The man was bearing down on me. My hands were limp and wet. Please, I thought. Please. Who was I addressing? The man? God? Whoever handled these things.

I think—" Anakin kicked his heel against the polished marble floor. "I think I hate it when I can't stop my men from getting hurt. From dying. I think—

Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.

The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy.

Sometimes I fear those noisy words boiling in an unsettling cauldron.

Okay, I'll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.

Maybe is wasn't love so much as a fear of losing everything I'd accomplished. I was afraid to let go.

Winning and losing is not an external game. It is an internal battle over telling yourself the truth vs. lies regarding why you haven't stepped into the life you dreamed of.

Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God's goal of the impossible.

The darkness that surrounds us cannot hurt us. It is the darkness in your own heart you should fear.

There is always a moment in our lives when we are destined to fall the way we ever feared of.

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go?