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Quotes About Struggle

I see that you are not happy with our command,' said the archbishop. 'No, Your Grace. I've tried to acquit myself well here at the cloister, and I don't mean to boast in any way when I say that, but I can honestly argue that I've done my best,' said Arn, crushed.
~ Jan Guillou
a man must meet his enemies, doesn't he? And what kind of enemy must he meet foremost if not the inconvenient of them all?
~ Jan Guillou
a man must meet his enemies, doesn't he? And what kind of enemy must he meet foremost if not the the most inconvenient of them all?
~ Jan Guillou
It took a great deal of force and time to deal with these barricades, and victory was elusive.
~ Jan Guillou
Everything is permitted in a fight with the devil.
~ Jan Guillou
If all our foes were like Al Ghouti, we would never win,' he said thoughtfully. 'On the other hand, if all our foes were like him, victory would no longer be necessary.
~ Jan Guillou
When people say that school prepares children for the real world, what's implied is that it is the difficult parts of school (doing things you don't want to do, forced interaction with peers, following rules that you don't believe in) that are important. What's implied is that the real world is going to be an unhappy place and that being treated unfairly by people is a part of life.
~ Jan Hunt
We no need to be a knight for to live in a castle and fight for a better life.
~ Jan Jansen
There will always be a light in the darkness when we are willing to make compromises.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Sometimes we think we have a great prosperity but then we suddenly encounter the storm.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
If we have a chance coming to the Top and no have luck For stay there, the way down can be very Scary for the change in our Life style.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Haat of jaloezie zal niet geven geen oplossing alleen tranen op de lange termijn, omdat een winnaar is een vechter voor hun rechten en kansen in het leven.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Hate or Jealousy will not Give any Solution only Tears on the Long Run, because a Winner is a Fighter for their Rights and Chances in Life.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
The only task he concentrated on, day by day, was keeping himself and his family alive. He knew the Nazis' goal: extermination. The only dignity he had left was in his ability to resist. On
~ Jan Jarboe Russell
The paradox was that Roosevelt asked loyalty of a disenfranchised group of people—people like Ernie, who'd been stripped of their rights as Americans.
~ Jan Jarboe Russell
I began to tell myself that if I'd survived Bergen-Belsen, I could survive anything," said Irene. "I tried to focus not on what I'd lost, but what I had to gain. It was a struggle." In
~ Jan Jarboe Russell
Mathias bore the immigrant's burden. He had one foot on one side of the ocean in Germany and the other in America, which made him an outsider in both places.
~ Jan Jarboe Russell
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. JL Borges
~ Jan Karon
I've forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, of course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and prosecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.
~ Jan Karon
My work is awfully labored just now. Sometimes it has the most wondrous life of its own, it fairly pulls me along—rather like wind surfing! At other times, it drags and mopes, so that I despair of ever writing another word or drawing another picture. I've found that if one keeps pushing along during the mopes, out will flash the most exhilarating thought or idea—a way of doing something that I had never seen before—and then, one is off again, and hold on to your hat!
~ Jan Karon
There'll be times when you wonder how you can possibly thank Him for something that turns your life upside down; certainly there will be such times for me. Let us, then, at times like these, give thanks on faith alone… obedient, trusting, hoping, believing.
~ Jan Karon
Her mom said they were to pray for the people her dad and his colleagues were treating, pray for his sound health and safekeeping, and trust God in everything. She knew such wisdom in her head, but complete trust was, as her mother said, 'yet to build a station in her heart and erect its flag of undisputed possession.
~ Jan Karon
Human nature is what we were put on this earth to rise above. K. Hepburn in The African Queen
~ Jan Karon
In the end, would he be able to say with Paul, I have fought a good fight! I have finished the course! I have kept the faith! Time, which tells everything, would tell that, also.
~ Jan Karon