Quotes About Struggle

a country where we seldom understand that we must be prepared to fight for issues bigger than an umpire's decision at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Every single person you meet, Philo wrote, it's said—Everyone— is fighting a very great battle. Except that no one is able to find where he said it, or what he thought the burden might be that brings it on. Still, it's almost certainly true— and so he added, perhaps, be kind.

I do not wonder, and you will not either, that when Indians see their wives and children starving and their last source of supplies cut off, they go to war. And then we are sent out there to kill them. It is an outrage. All tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away, they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do—fight while they can. Our treatment of the Indian is an outrage.

It is hard to go into a fight and were often afraid," confessed the Cheyenne warrior John Stands in Timber, "but it was worse to turn back and face the women.

When people come into the office and say they've tried to make their marriage work, and I hear what the effort was, it seems to me that there's some lack of understanding of what effort is.

Asked about their gravest cases, med students say, A patient who had been doing well in treatment lost his job, could not afford his medicine, resumed drinking, missed his clinic appointments, and after four months was brought to the emergency room by the police. Paralyzing melancholy has become an element in a tale of treatment interrupted.

Right, wrong—those are words thrown around by those what is in power in order to sit on the backs of those what ain't.

I do feel like I have important, beautiful things to say about the world, I just can't think of them at this particular instant.

I have this rage that I can't explain. It's sad.

I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate.

Life is a zoo in a jungle

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

I once tried drowning my sorrows, till I found out they could swim.

There is a point when life, having showered us with jewels for nothing, begins to exact our life's blood for paste.

Progress doubles our tenure in a vale of tears.

For most of the past forty years, the American economy has been successful in producing jobs but distressingly unsuccessful in producing jobs that lead to a livable income.

Church is too often the most risky place to be spiritually honest.

When we reach the point where things simply make no sense, when our thinking about God and life no longer line up, when any sense of certainty is gone, and when we can find no reason to trust God but we still do, well that is what trust looks like at its brightest – when all else is dark.

My commitment to follow through on my choice came with a cost. I tried very hard, for years, with complete transparency, to blend together old and new—the particular Christian tradition that birthed me and for which I had deep respect, and the bigger Bible I had come to know, was excited about, and could not deny without deceiving myself and others.

When we think of "strong" faith as something that should be free of uncertainty or crises, I believe we have gotten wrong an important part of who God is and how the Christian life really works.