Quotes About Struggle

the people in my life didn't destroy me. i destroyed myself with intense feelings of inadequacy.

Don't mistake good with easy. Sometimes the two are companions. Often they are polarized. Much like a grand marriage.

Seanabhean is ea mise anois go bhfuil cos léi insan uaigh is an chos eile ar a bruach. Is mó bogradh is cruatan curtha agam díom ón gcéad lá do saolaíodh me go dtí an lá atá inniu ann. Dá mbeadh 'fhios agam go mbeadh a leath, ná a thrian, i ndán dom ní bheadh mo chroí ná m'intinn chomh haerach ná chomh misníúil is do bhí i dtosach mo shaoil.

Den nya tron är en etisk kamp från början till slut, dock icke en högljudd och förtviflad, utan en glad och segerrik kamp i det tysta.

Nöjena utgöra lockbetet, och slutet på allt är smärta.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

The more difficult the VICTORY, The Greater the Happiness in WINING

Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape -- all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

She had a kind heart, though that is not of much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation.

It was defeat, but defeat is less unwelcome when you are tired.

She had once seen a heron flying across the estuary and trying, while it was on the wing, to swallow an eel which it had caught. The eel, in turn, was struggling to escape from the gullet of the heron and appeared a quarter, a half, or occasionally three-quarters of the way out. The indecision expressed by both creatures was pitiable. They had taken on too much.

When we were young, we said the hell with it and used our breasts as shields. But the tears fall so easy when they take away love.

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

Rafferty gripped his brother's shoulder and pushed him in the direction of his wife. She was rolling on the fresh-turned earth of Charlie's grave now, and her cries were no longer human. "Go hold her. Go on, even if she fights you, but, dammit, hold her." Go on, brother, before I do, because if I do, you ain't ever getting her back .

I couldn't let him have you, Jessalyn," he said, his throat raw. "I know that I am worthless, a degenerate Trelawny buried in debts. But you're all I've ever wanted out of this life, the only thing I will ever need. Without you I have no reason to live." He held his hands up to her, spreading them in supplication, and they shook as if he had an ague. "I have no pride left. You have it all.

She'd just spent the last hours engaged in endless small talk. Now, when it mattered so much, she seemed to have no words to say, or even breath to speak them with. All her life she'd always had such trouble with words: finding them and losing them, hoarding them and wasting them.

Blacks were "not yet freed from the bonds of injustice," Kennedy observed. They were "not yet freed from social and economic oppression." Then he added an insight that Black abolitionists, civil rights activists, and organizers had advocated for centuries: "And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

The Confederacy lost the war but resoundingly won the peace.

All the things that make life worth living take work.

A karmic relationship is automatic and hypnotic at first, then often feels like you're in a tunnel; you can't get out until you emerge at the other end. You chose it, want to do it, but it's not that much fun. When it's over, you shake yourself and say, "What just happened to me?