Quotes About Struggle

Slowly, things were getting back to normal. The problem was, normal didn't feel so good anymore.

Kurt Cobain said that.

las serpientes viven con el veneno adentro de sus cuerpos sin haberlo decidido

Nada es tan desalentador como un esclavo satisfecho.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

Hay hombres sobrios y aplomados, a los que la desgracia los quiebra por adentro, sin que se vea.

He was playing a game he did not believe he could win, for stakes he could not bear to lose.

Yo voy a ser tu gran decepción y tú la mía porque vamos a representar allá adentro, acá adentro, a todos los que tienen la soberbia para emprender la tarea de convertir dos vidas en una

Qué voy a hacer para no ser tan raro, Dios mío, cuándo voy a ser capaz de enfrentar a los desconocidos, cuándo me van a pasar estas ganas de ser invisible, Dios, que no me miren

De pronto vivir sea ser derrotado, más temprano que tarde, por los lugares comunes: el duelo y la redención, el amor y la muerte

Es la frase más triste de todas las lenguas: "todo va a estar bien". Describe la esperanza y el anhelo, claro que sí, pero al mismo tiempo reconoce la crisis, la tempestad, el mal momento: todo va a estar bien, señoras y señores, porque ahora mismo no lo está, porque esto que estamos viviendo es un terrible inconveniente, un triste aprieto.

Cómo conciliar el sueño cuando lo mejor sería morirse.

y poco a poco me convenzo más y más de que la ficción tiende al drama porque la vida es igual: se quiere algo, vivir, por ejemplo, desesperadamente, pero se tienen muchos problemas para conseguirlo".

Lactomangulation, n.: Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the "illegal" side.

Rosella screams, a short, high-pitched yelp as the Pedestrian starts tearing at her clothes. It is what he must do, as the Pedestrian, and Rosella must squeal and weep and eventually succumb to the desire his rough hands awaken in her, because deep down every woman hides a dream of being ravished by strange men.

So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

God did not give Joseph any special information about how to get from being the son of a nomad in Palestine to being Pharaoh's right hand man in Egypt. What He did give Joseph were eleven jealous brothers, the attention of a very loose and vengeful woman, the ability to do the service of interpreting dreams and managing other people's affairs and the grace to do that faithfully wherever he was.

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

Bad dreams are things precious the soul fears it may lose.

Some things take hold of you. Invade you. Own you. You want to be free of them, but you never will be.

You imagine you're kin to the stars. But the same sap that inflames you, freezes and splits you. And the older you grow, the deader at heart.

Dorner leaned back in his chair, imagining what might have happened if he hadn't injected himself. The limbo of sleep, dark and secret— Drowning in the sea of voices. Not waking, not fighting. Letting them storm him without resisting.

Tennis is not a gentle game. Psychologically, it is vicious. That people are only just beginning to come to terms with this fact illustrates just how big a con trick has been perpetrated on the non-playing tennis public - and even a few players, usually losing players - for decades.