Quotes About Struggle

The farmhouse sat on a rise at the end of a long dirt road, in a clearing surrounded by fruit trees and ninety acres of pines. It was painted white, and peeling, and some former hippie tenant had painted a mandala on the wall just inside the door with fine-point Magic Marker. I painted over it, but it bled through, again and again. I finally left it there, a pale and pastel version of itself, hanging ghostlike in the hall.

Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'taint easy. --Penny Baxter to his son, Jody

Good God, with a bounty Look down on Marion County, For the soil is so pore, and so awful rooty, too, I don't know what to God the pore folks gonna do.

Life knocks a man down and he gits up and it knocks him down agin

Life is a difficult matter, and the more a simple man may learn of what greater men have thought, and taught, have spoken and have written, the better can he cope with any sort of life.

Now loneliness washed intolerably over her, as though she were drowning in a cold black pond.

This, then, was hunger. This was what his mother had meant when she had said, "We'll all go hongry." He had laughed, for he had thought he had known hunger, and it was faintly pleasant. He knew now that it had been only appetite. This was another thing.

Master Ren: "To quote the poets.. we're fucked".

We're all the same inside the cage. When they put the collars on us.

Too bad people don't rebuild themselves so easily.

I tried my best, but she pulled ahead, and I was loath to shout after her. Instead, I practiced throwing rude and unflattering thoughts in her direction. Killy glanced over her shoulder at me, and her pace slowed to a very fast walk.

Mother Wolf, you called yourself. What does a wolf teach her pups but teeth and hunger? You didn't make me in your image. You made me into something worse.

To quote the poets... we're fucked.

The good and the bad. It always happens together, and all you can do is press on. Press on.

Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Since the dawn of time, warring combatants have regularly reached for what support they could find to nerve their own side for battle.

The heroes of the faith usually have feet of clay—sometimes thighs, hearts, and heads as well. The

These are the facts of pre-Code Hollywood. The story behind it is monumental, because it deals with struggle for power. The stakes were high: the billion-dollar market for America's sixth-largest industry. The market was mostly Protestant. The industry was mostly Jewish-run. Yet a Midwest Catholic minority gained control. This is the story of *Forbidden Hollywood.*

He wants to think of himself as pious, honorable, churchgoing, civic-minded. The bent-down Mexican can drive the farmer to madness, to drink, to whoring, to collecting Ferraris, to the roulette table to gamble it all away. That's why the labor contractor came into existence. It's not as if the farmer can't

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried; you float.

War strips away the thin veneer applied slap-dash by the institutions of society and shows Man for exactly what he is.

an obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.

We're too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We've got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

The blessings of God will complicate your life, but unlike sin, they will complicate your life in the way it should be complicated.