Quotes About Struggle

Afterwards, walking to the car with my father, he told me I had played a nice game. No I hadn't, I said, it was terrible. Well, you did your best, he answered. You can't do well everytime.

Bir ölüm ferman? ç?karmak zaten yeterince kötüydü, ama ölmü? bir adam için çal??mak en az onun kadar kötüydü.

La vida nos arrastra de muchas maneras que no podemos controlar y casi nada permanece con nosotros.

parecías tener un talento especial para perseguir a la persona que menos te convenía, para querer lo que no podías tener, para rendir tu corazón a chicas que no podían o no querían corresponderte.

the sage Lenny Millstein, who not only was an excellent basketball man but an excellent person as well, who knew how to handle fourteen-year-old boys because he understood that fourteen was the worst possible age on the calendar of human life, and therefore all fourteen-year-olds were confused and fractured beings, not one of them a child anymore and not one of them an adult, none quite right in the head or at home in his unfinished body, and in the furnace of that claustrophobic arena of

No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.

when I finally hit bottom.

Find yourself drowning in a sea of trouble, and hard work can become the raft that ends up keeping you afloat.

Never underestimate the importance of war. War is the purest, most vivid expression of the human soul.

Our lives are determined by manifold contingencies,' I said, trying to be as succinct as possible, 'and every day we struggle against these shocks and accidents in order to keep our balance.

The walking wounded, opening their veins and bleeding in public.

But the Can Man is still touched in the head, and on nights when the world closes in on him, he still gets down on his hands and knees and howls at the moon.

Angesichts der Schwierigkeiten, vor die uns die reale Welt stellte, war es wohl ganz verständlich, daß wir ihr so oft es ging den Rücken kehrten.

one meets with failure too often to exult in the occasional success.

What to do when the world was on fire and you didn't have the equipment to put out the flames, when the fire was in you as much as it was around you, and no matter what you did or did not do, your actions would change nothing?

Onunla mücadele etmek demek, onu kabul etmi? olmak demek, hay?r demeyi istemek çoktan evet demek anlam?na geliyor.

Willy's sidekick was a hodgepodge of genetic strains – part collie, part Labrador, part spaniel, part canine puzzle – and to make matters worse, there were burrs protruding from his ragged coat, bad smells emanating from his mouth, and a perpetual bloodshot sadness lurking in his eyes.

You know now how deeply unhappy your mother was, and you also know that in his own fumbling way your father loved her, that is, to the extent he was capable of loving anyone, but they made a botch of it, and to be a part of that disaster when you were a boy no doubt drove you inward, turning you into a man who has spent the better part of his life sitting alone in a room.

Una cosa scompare e se aspetti troppo prima di ripensarla non c'è sforzo che possa farla riapparire. Dopo tutto, la memoria non è un atto di volontà. È qualcosa che accade tuo malgrado, e quando i cambiamenti sono troppo frequenti, la mente è destinata a vacillare e le cose destinate a eclissarsi in essa.

Ogni giorno è la stessa battaglia, lo stesso senso di vuoto, lo stesso desiderio di dimenticare e poi di non dimenticare. Quando ciò accade, è perché si è a questo punto, è solo quando si è toccato questo limite la penna comincia a scrivere. La storia inizia e si ferma, va avanti e poi si perde e, in mezzo a ogni parola, quanti silenzi, quante parole sfuggono e svaniscono per non essere mai più ritrovate.

Pero yo sí tengo un trabajo. Me levanto por la mañana como todo el mundo y luego intento ver si consigo llegar al final del día. Ése es un trabajo de jornada completa. Nada de diez minutos para el café, nada de fines de semana, nada de pagas extraordinarias, nada de vacaciones. No es que me queje, pero el sueldo es bastante bajo.

From poetry to justice, then. Poetic justice, if you will. For the sad fact remains: there is far more poetry in the world than justice.

Vingt ans, et déjà je me sentais victime d'un sort contraire.

Tom, il tempo non lo puoi cambiare», diceva June, intendendo che certe cose sono semplicemente quello che sono e non abbiamo altra scelta che accettarle. Tom aveva afferrato il principio, ma questo non gli impediva di maledire le tempeste di neve e i venti gelidi che soffiavano contro il suo piccolo corpo tremante.