Quotes About Struggle

a gradual leaking away of all conviction

this seemed to be that time in his life when he could suck the life out of any project no matter how promising it appeared

my heart clenched in my chest with a desperate love for this man who had been the hero of my life but who now was so confused he was incapable of seeing who or what was good for him

There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

We were like the Mount Everest climbers stepping over frozen corpses from prior climbing disasters in our quest for the summit. Like those climbers, we were motivated by a fear far greater than death—the fear of not reaching the top.

Attack is the proof that your enemy anticipates your success.

Los campeones no se convierten en campeones arriba del ring. Simplemente allí se los reconoce.

It's one thing to be poor. It's another thing to be poor and feel unsafe. One could say crime is the insult to the injury. But, it's really the extra injury to the injury.

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

We fought are tails of today

Meanwhile, the residents of the 138,000 damaged buildings continued to swelter and suffer. Local Miamians, as well as citizens from Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, attempted to drive bottled water, food, clothes, and other supplies into the stricken area. They were successful during the first few hours; but they were shut down by the end of the first day. The same bureaucrats who were giving mixed signals to Washington seemed to prefer organized suffering to disorganized relief.

Anthony Durnford was a fish out of water, both in terms of experience and, even more importantly, in the closely interlinked fields of judgement and temperament.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

I was trying to keep God's pain at arms length.

turned around and walked out, fighting an almost overpowering urge to tear up the check and

Kaito lurched forward, his opponent grabbing him an instant later, and both of them spun around the ring like two clumsy, obese ballet dancers, clawing at each other's mawashis, trying to get purchase.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.

To struggle against one's own flaws requires constant vigilance, but when you struggle against other people's flaws, you have to move more carefully and slowly.

Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked...

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.