Quotes About Struggle

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

By 1800 the U.S. Indian population stood at about 600,000, a pathetic remnant of the estimated 2.2 million on the eve of European colonization.

A woman's thoughts are always weapons. And all men are monsters in their hearts.

Perhaps he had failed. Perhaps the Order had failed. But both had failed nobly. There was something to that.

All men did have darkness. Some wore it in the form of horns. Some bore it invisibly as rot in their souls.

Vader was not a man.

She could hear the slow, steady beat of Vader's respiration but could draw no breath herself.

Without the neural connection to his armor, he was conscious of the stumps of his legs, the ruin of his arms, the perpetual pain in his flesh. He

The Elvish language had a word that perfectly expressed his feeling: Vaendin-thiil, which meant "fatigued by life's dark trials.

fear led to hate and hate to suffering.

Once, as a Jedi, he had meditated to find peace. Now he meditated to sharpen the edges of his anger.

If good people won't do the hard things, evil people will always win, because evil people will do anything.

Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order had wrought a galaxy in which good capitulated to evil, where human feelings—Aryn's feelings—were crushed under the weight of Jedi nonattachment.

The weak are found out and killed by the strong.

their fear fed his anger.

The real world didn't well accommodate principles.

We are, all of us, always being tested, my friend. Tests make us stronger, and strength is power, and power is the point. We must pass all the tests we face… Or die in the effort.

I am a murderer. I simply have not yet murdered. But I will, given time. The good in me is draining away into the dark hole in my center. My soul is broken. I am broken. I am my father's son.

You know the nearer your destination, the more you're slip slidin' away.

A man gets tied up to the ground, he gives the world its saddest sound.

Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever?

This "they win, the people lose" formula has become the one that has now set the world on its calamitous course.

Imagine feeling empty, virtually without a self. Now think about admitting that what little self you can recognize has something wrong with it. To many people with BPD, this is like ceasing to exist—a terrifying feeling for anyone.

Borderlines may need to feel in control of other people because they feel so out of control with themselves. In addition, they may be trying to make their own world more predictable and manageable.