Quotes About Struggle

Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then that would be a life which take every ounce of her strength. She wanted no less. She loved to see the shapes and strokes of line and turn them into words: she loved the idea of battling against enemies external and internal and all her will being consumed in that battle.

We fight, therefore, we are!

This was the virtue of Israel, to have "contended with Elokim and with men" and to have prevailed over their respective concealments of G-d. They are no longer barriers to him; indeed they assent to his blessings. He not only won his struggle with the angel (the guardian angel of Esau) but the angel himself blessed him. This is the achievement of which the Proverbs speak: "He makes even his enemies be at peace with him."14

The man who runs may fight again.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.

Oscar Wilde summoned his last measure of strength to say, "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.

Ningú no neix per viure entre reixes.

They are consumed by the fear of desire.

La mort va fugir pel cor i quan ja no vaig tenir la mort a dintre em vaig morir...

You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

I hate pantyhose. Although I occasionally wear Control Top because I've found there's no quicker way to flatten my tummy, and shut down my whole digestive tract.

Aeriel felt her heart grow troubled. "I know," she said. "I know that he is evil, but his beauty unmakes me. Every time he looks at me, I die.

He was lost. He knew it. He had neither the size nor the strength to defeat her, and she had him cornered. But he would fight. He was a warrior, the prince-son of the unicorns, and he meant to go down fighting. There would be no songs to mark his death; and none of his people would even know. But he had saved Korr and the others of the band. It was noon — they were safe out of the hills by now, and none of the rest of it mattered.

In CS, it can be hard to explain the difference between the easy and the virtually impossible," reads the caption.

I didn't make this plan. I just wake up sometimes and want to crawl out of my life.

We must protect the girls," Mrs. Kroehne said. "You understand." I do understand. I am a contaminant and must be kept silent. It has been three months since my baby was born, three months since I walked away from my baby with milk dripping from my breasts. I will not say this to any of these young people during my time among them. I will construct careful lies and memorize them to explain myself, my dark inward life, my hunger for love, my tough resistance to trust.

I wrote it for insomniacs at three in the morning who were wondering how they'd get through the next day. And I wrote it for my past self, that girl who promised herself she'd write a book someday.

Blue Plate Special was the most difficult book I've ever written, as well as the easiest. The material was all there. I just had to find the thread, weave it through, and tie it together at the end. No big deal. Ha! It was agony a lot of the time. Ecstasy the rest of the time. Such a roller coaster. I kept vacillating between "I can't do this, it's too hard" and "God, this is fun.

There it was, out at last, and if it seems like nothing very much, I can only say that it took a long time to say it, to be able to say it, and none of the journey was easy.

the closest I can come to describing what the theater is like. A barbaric free-for-all in which should you ever win, you are for sure going to fall flat on your face or your ass.9