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Quotes About Struggle

The Lord only gives us what we can handle and
~ Unknown
E ela se perguntou como era possível fazer da miséria uma religião.
~ Unknown
I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend the time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.
~ Unknown
I will not shrink from undertaking what seems wise and good, because I labor under the double handicap of race and sex; but, striving to preserve a calm mind with a courageous, cheerful spirit, barring bitterness from my heart, I will struggle all the more earnestly to reach the goal.
~ Mary Church Terrell
The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.
~ Unknown
The sacredness of the male mind is allied to the struggle for power in that men, claiming objectivity, can also claim universal validity for their values. In this sense the word man, correctly in their view, can encompass women, although the converse is not true and the word woman can never stand for the general but only for the particular.
~ Unknown
Cassie grabbed at the heavy skillet she had hanging on a peg on the wall, and Red rushed to lift it for her. She whacked at his hands with a wooden spoon. "Don't you have any chores to do outside?" "I'm carrying this frying pan for you." Red pried her fingers off it. "Now tell me where you want it.
~ Mary Connealy
She stood alone in the blustery wind, as cold in her heart as she was in her fingertips. Finally, moving like an old woman, she got on her mustang and started for home. A home without enough grass. A home with cattle so far from her cabin, it would be a life-and-death struggle to get to them through the winter. A home so lonely that Bailey, a woman who didn't cry let the wind cry for her.
~ Mary Connealy
Look, I know this sucks for you because of him and I want to be there for you, I do, but I can't do this anymore. I can't keep being your second choice-- not when you're my first.
~ Unknown
Love is a grave mental disease.
~ Plato
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
~ H L Mencken
Trying to mentally bury strong loving feelings for someone who is no longer in your life and that you still truly love is like trying to hold a beach ball under water....just keeps surfacing.
~ Unknown
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
~ James Earl Jones
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.
~ Joni Mitchell
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. - Maker of the Simpsons
~ Matt Groening
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
~ Roland Barthes
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
~ Albert Einstein
The love boat has crashed against the everyday.
~ Vladimir Mayakovsky
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
~ Marilyn Monroe
They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.
~ Marilyn Monroe
When things are down it'll all turn around. When things are up, you gotta throw the hammer down.
~ Unknown
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all the rules.
~ George Orwell
Oh Dear God! Why wouldn't you allow those two consuming fires to be only one? Why do you allow only fires aliens of each other to unite? Why God?
~ Sorin Cerin
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
~ Mao Zedong