Quotes About Struggle

He has done the best he could in a difficult situation, and his conscience is clean. It is far more important to be trustworthy than to seem trustworthy, a lesson he learnt from a lanky man named Strider long ago

It helps us to create and re-create ourselves, often against harsh odds. So I will be talking here about the crafting of souls.

Bad things happen fast: The brakes give out; the stroller goes bouncing down the steps; the lump of gristle sticks in your throat (and sticks). Good things are all about progress: effort, expectation, and desire, and something evermore about to be, as the poet says.

Writing is hard. It's tough to get up in the morning and look at the white snowfield of a trackless page. How to push forward? Use anger; use rage if you have to. Settle scores. And if you have no scores to settle, then create a few for yourself, not only for the purposes of public relations, but also for the purposes of inspiration. Hot-blooded, hot-tempered, always ready to take offense: the writer as duelist.

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

There's no question that Laura – in more than one way, for many reasons – danced with the devil and paid a terrible price.

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown," Ajay whispered.

This is not a happy story, it doesn't begin or end well, and the middle is equally dreadful.

Repeated and prolonged proximity to moribund logging communities set off my misanthropy.

Mark Galeotti

But what the measured prose of psychiatrists and the carefully calculated statistics of social scientists rarely capture is the experience of inner struggle. These "significant changes" do not occur automatically. In fact, they must often fight against our resistance. In this sense, midlife is a drama more worthy of a playwright than a scholar. We are characters in the play, caught at the opening of the second act, and we do not know what will happen next.

Something worth loving. But she could not love him as long as she hated herself. Her past wouldn't allow it.

two cool kids, a Range Rover, a big home, a drop-dead gorgeous wife who consented to sex twice a month (an unheard-of frequency during his premarital existence—computer geeks at MIT don't get much sex, as another general rule), fame, fortune, respect, manhood, and maybe even love.

did anyone really believe in God anymore? In Satan? That there truly was a daily battle between good and evil waged within our souls and for our souls?

the turkey shoot back in

Mark Gimenez

Maybe when a man fights evil every day for so many years, he becomes evil. Maybe a man can't be around that much hate without hating. I fought the hate. The major … the hate consumed him.

We were ordered to war but not allowed to win the war. We were ordered to kill but court-martialed for killing. We were ordered to defeat Communism in Southeast Asia only to see Communism win at home.

Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.

People who live with substance abusers know that refusing to cooperate with the addiction can trigger an explosive outburst or a childish accusation.

work was not supposed to be something you enjoyed but something you endured. If it wasn't hard, it wasn't legitimate. I

Your brain has three layers that evolved over millions of years: a primitive reptile layer, a more evolved mammal layer, and a final primate layer. They all interconnect, but in effect they often act like three different brains—and they're often at war with each other.

We all have sinned and fall short of his holiness. That's why we need him. When he forgives me and comes into my life, he walks with me and gives me peace and hope — ironically enough, he gives me comfort — but I still have rough days. Sometimes they're rougher because I do trust Jesus. But it's not about having good days or bad days; it's about being his.