Quotes About Struggle

We were already living in some kind of Hell in this strange place of broken beauty.

What's the border, Papi?' 'Hills,' Her father whispered. 'Hills and bushes, that's all it is. But we must walk across it.' 'Papi, if it's just land, why can't we take the bus all the way there. Why must we walk across?' 'Because we don't have papers, Carmen. And even though it is just land, it represents a wall. We must go like thieves.' Juana wished she could ask what the father meant by that. Hills and bushes, that's what the border was. How strange.

immigrants are artists because they create a life, a future, from nothing but a dream.

I'd rather be poor but together," he said. I thought about my own father, and the choice he'd made to go north, the price we'd paid for that decision. Was my uncle right? Was it better to be poor but together? Or was it better to try to find a better life, even if it meant breaking up your family?

What separates man from divine Reality is the slightest of barriers: God is infinitely close to man, but man is infinitely far from God. The barrier is, for man, a mountain; he stands before a mountain which he must remove with his own hands. He digs away the earth, but in vain; the mountain remains. Man, however, goes on digging, in the name of God. And the mountain vanishes. It was never there.

My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race.

Lewis could feel something swelling inside him, at his sinuses and in his chest. He had worked hard to keep this ghost at bay, but now it was pressing in, coming to claim its dues. The tears were coming, and he had to swallow to hold them. He stood up.

Do you believe the world is for you or against you?

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Philo of Alexandria (circa 20 BC–AD 50) PHILOSOPHER

We tend to fight everything we don't want, which actually creates more of a fight

In our society, we've become content with fighting against things. Fighting against cancer, fighting against poverty, fighting against war, fighting against drugs, fighting against terrorisim, fighting against violence. We tend to fight everything we don't want, which actually creates more of a fight.

through him. She asked him if he would ever have faith again. He looked into her dark blue eyes, eyes the color of the bluebonnets that dotted the pastures in the spring. He said that with her help, he would try anything. Then he was walking home. Something wasn't right. Something was following him. Whatever it was, it was strong and had no mercy.

who've been treated like garbage by their horrible husbands and would rather wait for widowhood than endure a divorce.

I know ladies don't sweat, but something was running down my face in great rivulets.

I decided never to eat bacon again. But I happen to adore bacon, so that didn't last long.

that a time of stress and tragedy takes away all but the will to survive.

Experience makes one come to terms with life, to be at one with the mind and the heart. And most people are suffering in some way.

It's hard to imagine there is a God at the moment, isn't it?" he said. "If I was watching this from up in heaven, I'd want to step in and put a stop to it.

Why must I still see myself in competition with him? I wondered. Shouldn't I be content to be a wife and mother?

Life seemed to be one succession of good news and then bad. Ups followed by downs. But there was always enough hope to keep on going.

He tried to get up and move, but a searing pain from his leg shot through him. The last thing he heard before he blacked out was the song of a bird, greeting the dawn.

what I did, I didn't want

I always felt there was something wrong with me, even when I was a child, a discomfort with my own being. I had an urge to be mean to people. I was too shy to do it properly but now I know the reasons for the faults in my character. I'm the devil.