Quotes About Struggle

Wherever it left us, we were barely learning to live with it when here came Flannery O'Connor and Hank Williams to tell us that no one has ever been loved the way everybody wants to be loved, and that's hard. That's hard. --last stanza of How Step by Step We Have Come to Understand

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even when they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his way along, and it seemed hours before he got them into the shelter of the Hundred Acre Wood and they stood up straight again, to listen, a little nervously, to the roaring of the gale among the treetops. 'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought.

La vida duele. Cada movimiento que hago está equivocado y cada palabra mía es errónea. Y cada uno de esos errores se paga caro… Entre nosotros, allá, el futuro es como un insomnio infinito, y el hombre es como un caracol; deja su pasado baboso tras de sí como una huella transparente y carga el futuro sobre su espalda como una concha de caracol en la que se ovilla cada noche para pernoctar…

Tesko onome kome dukate u kesi pojedu bakrenjaci i kome noc pojede dane.

He engordado porque ya estaba demasiado llena de odio. El amor ocupa en el hombre tanto lugar como le deje el odio, igual que en una jarra de vino cabe tanta agua como vino se haya bebido, y cuanto más profundo es el odio, más aflora el amor a la superficie...

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

The villain still pursued her.

History has failed us, but no matter.

No one is clean. Living makes you dirty.

Life makes you pay...everybody pays something

He was suffering, and in a way, he could manage that; but he had caused others to suffer, and he did not know why he had to live now and recall the series of terrible choices that had not looked so terrible at the time. Was that how it was for most people?

People are awful. Drink some beer." Haruki

no matter what, always expect suffering, and just keep working hard.

In life, there was so much insult and injury, and she had no choice but to collect what was hers.

If you do well at anything, you gotta pay up to all the people who did worse. On the other hand, if you do badly, life makes you pay a shit tax, too. Everybody pays something.

But she could not imagine clinging to Japan, which was like a beloved stepmother who refused to love you,

the stories of Koreans in Japan should be told somehow when so much of their lives had been despised, denied, and erased.

Casey meant it when she said, 'Forgive us for our debts as we forgive our debtors,' because they were for her the hardest words to live by, and by saying them, she hoped they'd become possible. Like Ted, Casey would never discuss her ambivalent views on religion. She was honest enough to admit that her privacy cloaked a fear: the fear of being found out as a hypocrite" (Free Food For Millionaires, p.100-101.)

And this is something Solomon must understand. We can be deported. We have no motherland. Life is full of things he cannot control so he must adapt. My boy has to survive.

there is a tax, you know, on success." "Huh?" "If you do well at anything, you gotta pay up to all the people who did worse. On the other hand, if you do badly, life makes you pay a shit tax, too. Everybody pays something.

Living every day in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage

The world was cruel with its rations.

you do well at anything, you gotta pay up to all the people who did worse. On the other hand, if you do badly, life makes you pay a shit tax, too. Everybody pays something.