Quotes About Struggle

I didn't have it in me," I say. "The minute I felt unsupported I gave up. I saw that to be a painter meant a lifetime of not being supported.

mostly I have found myself resisting their sadness when I have so much of my own.

She ran off the hate she had for herself, ingrained since a young age from a mesmerizing array of influences: things her father said and did, things her mother didn't say and do, magazines, television, girls she went to high school with, a hundred men whistling at her on the street, America in general. She loathed herself, she forgave herself. She loathed them, she did not forgive them.

I am distracted by the world around me and my family's issues and my lackluster career and how all the wheels keep spinning and I have never learned how to steer.

Look, you had it easier than me,' she says. 'You think Nana and Papa were busy supporting women's rights? No, they wanted me to meet a nice man and get married and cook and clean for him and give them grandchildren, and that's it. You were born into a world where feminism existed and was readily available to you. I had to acquire that knowledge. I didn't know I could be on my own.

To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough hope to carry on. I am beginning to realize I don't want to be rejected my entire life. Felicia

Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.

It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

Visionære mennesker, de, som har en drøm, har ofte problemer med det nutidige, Dette at de kever derude i fremtiden, hvor drømmene, for dem, allerede er gået i opfyldelse, bringer dem hovedkulds ind i nutidens blodige kendsgerninger.

Der er en fordel ved at være en minoritet, som regnes blandt de forfulgte: for i den stilling må du stole på Gud som din kilde. Som Havner engang sarkastisk bemærkede, er det først, når kristendommen bevæger sig fra forfølgelse til popularitet, at kraften forsvinder.

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

my life was only one of countless stories of human pain; that though I had considered myself the prima donna of sufferers, I was simply one of a vast troupe; that darkness indeed descends upon every man and woman, but that moon and stars also shine down upon all. p 315

So ardent did he sing, each note might carry a breath of his life. People passing stopped to hear. And seeing them gathered, he stumbled among them with his hat held out. It was easy to credit the truth of his song, that his dim old eyes, they once had shone, that his heart, once cheerful, had been bro-o-ken. Two coins chinkled in his hat. And so it was when nights were still and sleep had yet to bind him, round him shone that other light, finely to remind him.

There are no second-place finishers—you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser—nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.

If America don't come around, we're gonna burn it down.

The path is never easy, and you may take some L's along the way, but never lose belief in yourself or become so insecure that you step off the path for an easier, safer one. The risky, difficult path is usually the one that leads to your true destiny, to your true calling. So always respect the process, and never give up no matter what.

Attack and adversity contribute to national cohesion in a way that success and affluence do not

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

It was just that i had the feeling that the art scene belonged to the men, and that I was in some way invading their domain. Therefore the work was hidden away." -Louise Bourgeois

The more I am spent, ill, a broken pitcher, the more I become an artist, creator, in this revival of the arts.

Do we not give the Lord the greatest promises in the most dire moments?

For the true victory,neither enemies nor allies don't die without difference