Quotes About Struggle

Two rival tendencies, alien alike in their principles and their aims, which have long been silently developing themselves, are now contending for the mastery within the bosom of the Church, like the unborn babes in Rebekah's womb, and it is simply a truism to assert that every section of our divided Christendom is interested in the result of the struggle. We

The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence.

Adversity is the foundation of virtue

We are no more than candles burning in the wind.

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.

blacks are suffering more from the invasion [of Spanish] than whites because they have fewer resources with which to run away from immigration.

She interpreted this to mean that white subjects were struggling with the "awkwardness" or "exhaustion" of dealing with a black man, and that this interfered with their ability to take the mental test.

Yliopistossa kohtaa eloonjäämisvietin degeneroituja muotoja.

Karkealla kouralla elämä tahkoaa hymyä naamalta pois.

Sisyfos optimistina: Vierivä kivi ei sammaloidu.

Moniko tyranni pitää itseään vain toukkana joka syö pois mädän ja sillä keinolla pelastaa koko ruumiin?

Köyhä vihaa rikasta luonnostaan, sen on verissä. Tulee aina hetki jolloin lompakkokreivit pannaan lyhtytolppaan niin kuin sika teurauskoukkuun. Sitten sika syödään. Mutta kasvaa uusia, jotka lihovat kuin niitä ruokitaan. Kunnes kävelevät kahdella jalalla kuin sadussa.

Vaikeinta on unohtaa oppimansa, olla taas tavallinen.

If loving someone is putting them in a straitjacket and kicking them down a flight of stairs, then yes, I have loved a few people.

[Y]ou can do it, even if you can't. Just keep can'ting until eventually you can.

Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves.

In high school I barely made the rodeo team. But I wasn't good enough to start, so I just rode the bench.

The good, the bad, and the ugly basically sums up my sex life. Except that I've never had the good.

Love is an eternal struggle with the angel. From dawn to night. Without mercy. The opponent is often stronger. But woe to him who doesn't realize that his angel has no wings and will not bless.

When you feel that you aren't like everyone else or feel tainted by what has happened to you, it's hard to be optimistic about the future. In fact, for many survivors, it's nearly impossible to imagine the future at all. Many of us are caught in a state where we're still just trying to survive (our sole focus during trauma) and can't think much beyond that. Time for us is frozen and the future feels hazy at best.

He had not felt loved by his mother and had experienced difficulty in receiving love since, so he didn't have some of the healing vectors that can counteract traumatic events. He had resources to help others but not the resources to save himself.

It would be like climbing up a winding mountain where you can't really see much ahead, then finally realizing you're at the top.