Quotes About Struggle

The little town of Stormhaven struggled up the hill, narrow clapboard houses following a zigzag of cobblestone lanes.

Translation in terms of power struggle: not a simple process for achieving equivalence but a conflict a question of 'bind or be bound', 'chain or be chained', 'capture or be taken captive

So here we are. Torn. Is it possible that feedback is like a gift and like a colonoscopy? Should we hang in there and take it, or turn and run? Is the learning really worth the pain? We are conflicted.

The Dilemma: Avoid or Confront, It Seems There Is No Good Path

Sometimes the most genuine thing you can do is share your internal struggle to cast them in a more positive role. You can say something like, "The story I'm telling in my head about what is going on is that you are being inconsiderate. At some level I know that's unfair to you, and I need you to help me put things in better perspective. I need you to help me understand where you are coming from on this.

Only in the Christian life does surrender bring victory.

Jesus comes to you in the midst of the struggle, when the battle is almost unbearable and the circumstances look impossible. With the voice of absolute certainty and strength, He speaks to you

Es una ley de la existencia que quien ha luchado por conseguir algo sin lograrlo, lo obtenga en el momento en el cual abandona el deseo.

The dark side is about survival. It's about unleashing your inner power. It glorifies the strength of the individual.

The Neimoidian gave a long, gurgling sigh. "You're right, Des. The decision is made. Grim fate and ill fortune have conspired against you. It's not like sabacc; you can't fold a bad hand. In life you just play the cards you're dealt.

The dark side is insidious. Hate will transform you into the very evil that you are fighting so hard against. - Satele Shan

The world will run you down and slam a tire over your exploding skull and not even wonder what it had just hit.

E' necessaria la sventura per scavare certe misteriose miniere nascoste nell'intelligenza umana; serve la pressione per fare esplodere la polvere. La prigionia ha riunito in un punto solo tutte le mie facoltà, che fluttuavano quà e là, e sono venute a scontrarsi in uno spazio stretto: come sapete, dall'urto delle nubi scaturisce l'elettricità, dall'elettricità il lampo, dal lampo la luce

Winds of adversity may have blown through your life. Your world may be falling apart. But if you will look closely enough, you'll see the light of God's faithfulness shining through the debris.

When God wrestled with Jacob, He wasn't fighting only for the heart of a man; He was warring for His dream!

How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me.

Almost anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. The moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

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