Quotes About Struggle

I'm sorry, Aido. Always having to put up with homeless me must be very taxing.

No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross

I'm not the 'Yuki' Zero knows anymore... Because the vampire side of me..ate the other part...

Yuki (in a standoff with Zero): We're going to stay like this until vol. 10? Why...don't we sit down...Zero? Zero: I can't. If I sit down, I won't be able to get up again. (I've reached my limits in many ways). Yuki: Well, I'm going to sit...

The wisest words come out of the most damaged mouths.

It amazed Forrest that so many men seemed to wake up in the morning needing some kind of beating or another, men saying and doing fantastic things for the sake of getting another man to smash his face.

Some folks, he said, seem to want to seek out the things that destroy them. Called an achimist, a fancy word, but a true one.

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.

Uno nods, looks out over his high school football field again. He knows deep down he would never kill himself. He likes being alive. Even if he knows the things that happen to him aren't always good. It doesn't matter. He wants to be alive. And not only that, he wants to see who he is. Like somebody from the outside can.

He'd give anything to be out there playing instead of standing here watching. Trying to maintain this smile out of respect. He digs into his wrists some more with his nails. Breaks previously broken skin and pulls away. A smear of blood he wipes away with his other hand, rubs off across his dark jeans. Back home his mom is always on him to stop digging, but that only makes him want to dig more." -exerpt from "Mexican White Boy

So, he was breathing ice now? Great. He couldn't even have dinner with friends without some random new power messing everything up.

My stain will never get fixed 'cause it's on the inside. And lasers can't reach there.

How overwhelming the world could seem when you were thrust into the guts of it. How little power you realized human beings actually had compared with the earth.

But maybe that's what getting older is all about, right, Clark? You start to realize just how much of the world is unfair. And how few people care. It's not about justice, right? It's about power. And the people where I live…we don't have any. Not yet.

Sería imposible describir el peso de toda esa culpa.

Is it the lack of opportunity that creates the lack of ambition, or has that always existed? Most of them must have parents who work, or who studied, and who of course want the same thing for their kids. But how do you find that in a town where the major achievement was always seen as escaping it? Eventually

It's possible to do everything right and still lose. That's not a weakness. It's life.

That it's possible. You just have to fight. It will not be easy. But you can manage. Because life is giving you as much pain as you are capable [of living] with. And on the end of that path, the goal will be reachable. You will have suffered to do [it], but it doesn't matter.

That desperate tug-of-war between the desire to persevere and the overwhelming temptation to quit. And he loved it.

It was a very hard race from the word go with a combination of great runners and a tough course," he wrote. "I had my problems winning. I felt several times like giving into the pain and letting Gary [sic] win but I just couldn't. I just kept driving myself harder and harder, longer and longer.

This pain and suffering. This was my trophy ceremony.

Exercising mental fitness was a daily battle for him, but a battle he chose.

If you want to get a sense of what a very high level of perceived effort feels like in isolation from fatigue, find a steep hill and run up it as fast as you can. (You should probably warm up first.) That feeling of trying as hard as you can that hits you immediately, before fatigue sets in, is the feeling of a very high level of perceived effort.

Body weight is the enemy of running performance. Running is, after all, a continuous fight against gravity. With every stride you take your body must be lifted completely off the ground, because all of the progress you make when running is made while your body is airborne. What's