Quotes About Struggle

drove them at length to the most barbarous and inhuman methods of suppressing them, by the murder of their children.

As men deal with God's people, let them expect to be themselves dealt with; with the froward he will wrestle.

that life deal with it,life must go on,if we dont then we find ourself in a black hole which we cant get out of....never ending depression

The hardest war to win is one you don't even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don't even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance.

be kind because everyone you'll ever meet is fighting a hard battle." Wow. What a fabulous insight.

What is resistance? It's that sluggish feeling of not wanting to do something that you know is good for you, it's the inclination to do something that you unabashedly know is not good for you, and it's everything in between. It's the desire and tendency to delay something you should be doing right now.

In every moment of every day, resistance is there, waiting to pounce. The hardest war to win is one you don't even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don't even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance.

In every moment of every day, resistance is there, waiting to pounce. The hardest war to win is one you don't even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don't even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance. Make no mistake, resistance is your enemy. It will not quietly go away and leave you alone. You have to slay it like a dragon, and you have to slay it anew each day.

We are all struggling with something. Some of our struggles are easier to hide than others. My struggle with food is there for all to see. Others can hide their struggles. But sometimes being able to hide our struggles makes them harder, not easier.

One of the most important reasons to be gentle with ourselves is because if we cannot forgive ourselves, we will struggle to forgive others. And if we cannot forgive ourselves or others, we will resist even God's forgiveness. When we are gentle with ourselves, when we are patient with ourselves, we develop awareness, and awareness breeds compassion. And every person who ever crosses your path needs a little compassion.

I am broken. Pretending otherwise is exhuasting.

The point is our actions can tip the balance between hope and despair.

it is easy to get so caught up in surviving that we stop dreaming.

nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

But in truth, these masses had more than cotton profits in their souls. Especially in light of the failure of the European revolutions of 1848, many Americans understood the global stakes involved should their republican Union fail.

Esta es la devoción de los marineros[92]; cuando las tormentas los han llevado y al final "toda su ciencia es inútil. Entonces claman a Jehová en su angustia".

Muchos nunca claman a Dios, hasta que están al final de su sabiduría; nunca acuden a Dios en busca de ayuda, siempre y cuando puedan ayudarse a sí mismos.

We're all damaged. Every single beautiful, stupid, precious one of us. Damaged, damaged, damaged.

We hold on to the shitty things the tightest, for some reason. And

Then we lapse into silence. It's these silences that do damage, that reveal glimpses of the distressed foundation struggling under the weight of things.

Back in the car, I sit for a long time, breathing. I'll remember this, what just happened, for a very long time. I'll be on my own deathbed someday, replaying this in my head, wishing it had gone differently. We hold on to the shitty things the tightest, for some reason. And this is the shittiest thing ever. "Are

The food is awful," Jan wrote, "and cooked in such a way that no civilized white man can stand it for more than a week or two … Almost all the food is fried. They feed us fried green bananas, boiled rice, and foul-smelling salt fish. It rains so much that honest to goodness my hat is getting mouldy on my head… I haven't had on a pair of dry shoes in weeks.

He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.