Quotes About Struggle

A vida, porém, é tão boa, e tanto se quer viver, e a vida tanto nos seduz que chega a girar e girar algo diante de nossos olhos...

For years on years I have struggled with ink and hammer, O my tortured heart, to make you an embroidery of fire and gold, an orangetree hyancinth, a blossoming quince to console you …

"Life is trouble," Zorba continued. "Death, no. To live—do you know what that means? To undo your belt and look for trouble!"

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.

Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.

At last; something must kill a man.

The solution is in my head but I don't know how to face it.

Your feet on your defeat.

Il me semblait voir la vie bouger à côté, frotter et moudre les êtres humains, mais sans me prendre, quoi que je fisse pour m'imposer.

It's loneliness that makes us terrible and hurtful human beings.

Sometimes a life is so entirely disrupted, on such a large and ungraspable scale, all one can do is face the ruined day.

A man does like it when a woman tries, especially when she's foreign to him, as his wife had become the moment he'd decided to tell her he was leaving.

How difficult it is to walk through the world with your insides intact.

She wept and suffered, and finally, when Father had left the house again, she went to one of her secret places where a bottle was, and drank a tunnel away from the pain.

The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever.

It's never enough," he repeated, "but it is so much more than we had before. Without the Millennium project there would be no drugs, there would be no surgical equipment, there would be no way to operate the generator—I would be redundant most of the time. They say funding will continue, but someday it will stop, and when the funding stops, most likely everything we have done will be put to waste. I do not see how we are going to continue after they have left.

She played the game the way that it was meant to be played?as if her life depended on it. And she seemed driven by some need, or struggle, or fundamental resolve, that preceded the basketball and made it possible..

being unable to initiate and maintain satisfying and enduring relationships; being unable to say no and stick to it; and other negative behaviors and attitudes with others as well as with the self-aborbed parent. Some try to work through their issues or concerns with mental health professionals, but find that it is just about impossible to adequately describe what their formative years were like.

The world is full of contradictions; hence your search for harmony and peace. These you cannot find in the world, for the world is the child of chaos. To find order you must search within.

Life's not easy, try romancing with it.

I was afraid of becoming used to the sorrow that had grown like a gnarled tree inside me.

When suffering is great, we are vulnerable to doubt. She