Quotes About Struggle

I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night.. or find food.. you can't think with the mind of a child. You have to think with the mind of a man.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

My whole existence is spent just trying to not shove bad food in my fat face. It's like a constant struggle. I'll do really good for a while, and then I do bad, then I do really good.

I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else.

Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.

The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.

Every fight is a food fight when youre a cannibal.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

The meal plan was hard at first because I am a snack eater, but the most challenging part is trying to change my pallet to like healthy food.

I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.

When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.

At the end of every diet the path curves back toward the trough.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.