Quotes About Struggle

My thought is that the average adjusted boy is, if anything, more humanly wasted than the disaffected. So let us go on to discuss his stupidity, his lack of patriotism, his sexual confusion, and his lack of faith.

Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.

The lives of Einstein and Schrödinger inform is that even the most brilliant scientists are human

Respected political and military leaders saw the world as a Darwinian battleground, where the fittest race would emerge triumphant from a savage fight to the death.

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

We must submit ourselves to God and embrace whatever he allows to happen. Sometimes there are times of peace, other times struggle and persecution. But both are from the Lord, to mould us into the vessels he wants us to be.

The path of following the Lord Jesus Christ is not an easy one. Along the way lies suffering and hardship, but nothing we experience will ever compare to the suffering Jesus endured for us on the cross.

The greatest power within a person is the ability to choose change. This requires self-examination, this requires determination, this requires judging what needs to be changed, this requires moving from shame into guilt, and this requires repentance. There is a reason we struggle and react the way we do, but there is no excuse.

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

La fuerza es tan despiadada con quien la posee como con quien la sufre: a este lo aplasta, al primero lo envenena.

Divorce is a very difficult decision to make and no one makes it lightly.

People who filed for divorce have reached a point in their lives where they are no longer able to honor the commitment they made in their wedding vows.

Writing books hurts like no other kind of writing.

Writing a book is like injecting anabolic steroids: it if doesn't kill you, it'll make you stronger and hairier.

Even though I've written more than a hundred short stories I always think that I will never come up with another decent one. It's agony.

The answer to the first question was too impossible even to contemplate, but I would have to come to terms with it eventually. You see, we were in Hell. We were both in Hell.

Holmes went in for a final attack, fully expecting it to be fended off, and when it was, he hooked Moriarty's arms around his and pulled backwards, letting gravity do the rest. There was a resigned look on the Professor's face as they fell, as if he'd been expecting this. Tumbling

No man could truly say what he was until he had been pushed to the edge of things with the precipice of his own ruin staring up at him.

This land does not go out of its way to provide happy endings

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardour, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!