Quotes About Struggle

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

Modern life is very difficult for people who are unprepared. But this new environment will eventually facilitate more realistic relationships between people.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

In van! Cand vrei sa cazi, nu iei aminte la bratul care vrea sa te ridice.

Cel ce iubirea-si ia drept arma, frange destin si ura, forta si mizerii.

si zi de zi, mahnindu-l viitorul, la gandul mortii tresarind exulta si intre teama si nadejde tine pe cai imaginare sa-si ia zborul.

Ce viclesug, ce forta si ce geniu, stapan ingrat, m-ar duce iar la tine, chip milostiv ce-n inima porti moarte?

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

Our enemies weren't about to give us even an inch.

The realities of the lives of many LGBT people, from grappling with HIV to the presence of anti-LGBT violence, are unconsciously covered up as the victory narrative consumes us and as we allow it to happen at our own peril.

It was easy to believe when everything was good. But when bad things happened, doubt sowed its seed in fertile soil and burrowed deep. It was my duty to root it out.

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

Little Life Lesson 1: Life is a lot like hair, some mornings you get up and it looks great. Other mornings you can tell it's out to get you.

All I've ever wanted was to go pro ever since my dad first put me in hockey when I was 7. Some of the other kids go to fancy hockey camps in the summer and practice with the best coaches, but I never could. My folks are divorced and even working two jobs, my mom could barely keep up with the rent, so my hockey fees were partly subsidized and my dad paid the rest. There was no money available to help my performance. I had to earn my chops on the ice by myself.

After the sprints, which left my knees feeling like vanilla pudding, Brad let us grab a drink from our water bottles and rest for a minute. Practice wasn't even half over and I already felt ready to quit.

Depression can be a form of self hatred. We don't feel comfortable in our own skin.

That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem

Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest of your life trying to find your way.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. Bruce Barton, It's a Good Old World

the twentieth century was best represented by an unwilling traveler. "I mean, think of the millions of soldiers mobilized by wars. And all the people made homeless because of them. Now the world is full of people who don't belong where they end up and long for the places where they did.

Like so much that is true, it was of no help at all.