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Quotes About Struggle

The weight of the sky dropped onto Atlas's back, almost smashing him flat until he managed to get to his knees, struggling to get out from under the crushing weight of the sky. But it was too late. Noooooo! He bellowed so hard it shook the mountain. Not again! Atlas was trapped under his old burden.
~ Rick Riordan
But you, Percy - you are part god, part human. You live in both worlds. You can be harmed by both, and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal. Monsters never die... They must be defeated again and again, kept at bay. Heroes embody that struggle. You fight the battles humanity must win, every generation, in order to stay human.
~ Rick Riordan
You've got to be kid- Well, crud, what just happened there? I ran out of syl-
~ Rick Riordan
Just keep going, do your best, and hope it's good enough. That's all any of us can do.
~ Rick Riordan
It was a constant pattern for Nico: find some sort of solace and comfort, only to have it ripped away. Now here was Solace in his lap, sleeping like a baby. What would come and tear him away?
~ Rick Riordan
I raised my face to the heavens. "Please, Father, I get the point. Please, I can't do this!" Zeus did not answer. He was probably too busy recording my humiliation to share on Snapchat.
~ Rick Riordan
You can't hide from yourself, Loki! I said. No matter what form you take, you're still you - alone, scorned, bitter, faithless. Your insults are hollow and desperate. You don't stand a chance against us, because you don't have an us. You are Loki, always alone.
~ Rick Riordan
Exercise is nothing more than a depressing reminder that one is not a god.
~ Rick Riordan
That's – that's not fair,' Sadie said, her voice trembling. 'Tempting me with destruction.
~ Rick Riordan
The strix dived at Meg. She dodged aside, whacking the flat of her blade against the bird's tail feathers as it rushed past, sending the unfortunate bird into the opposite wall, where it smacked face-first into the brick, exploding in a cloud of monster dust and feathers. Meg! I said, I told you not to kill it! You'll get cursed! I didn't kill it. It committed suicide against that wall. I don't think the Fates will see it that way. Then let's not tell them.
~ Rick Riordan
Tyrants are not easy to oppose or walk away from, especially when you depend on them for everything.
~ Rick Riordan
Hedge scrambled away, but the first two skeletons grabbed his arms and lifted him off the ground. The coach dropped his bat and kicked his hooves. "Lemme go, ya stupid boneheads!" he bellowed.
~ Rick Riordan
You'll find your destiny, and your hard journey will finally make sense. But first you must face many sorrows. I regret that, but heroes cannot be shaped any other way.
~ Rick Riordan
Otis! Will you PLEASE stop killing me!
~ Rick Riordan
Nothings ever easy!!!!
~ Rick Smith
When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.
~ Rick Warren
Your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.
~ Rick Warren
Life is a struggle, but what most people don't realize is that our struggle, like Jacob's, is really a struggle with God! We want to be God, and there's no way we are going to win that struggle.
~ Rick Warren
It's encouraging to know that all of God's closest friends — Moses, David, Abraham, Job, and others — had bouts with doubt. But instead of masking their misgivings with pious clichés, they candidly voiced them openly and publicly. Expressing doubt is sometimes the first step toward the next level of intimacy with God.
~ Rick Warren
Para evitar que nos aferremos demasiado a esta tierra, Dios permite que experimentemos algún grado de incomodidad y tristeza en nuestras vidas, o sea, anhelos que nunca serán satisfechos de este lado de la eternidad.
~ Rick Warren
If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
~ Rick Warren
None of us are immune to temptation.
~ Rick Warren
When life gets tough, when you're overwhelmed with doubt, or when you wonder if living for Christ is worth the effort, remember that you are not home yet. At death you won't leave home — you'll go home.
~ Rick Warren
A young man in his twenties wrote, "I feel like a failure because I'm struggling to become something, and I don't even know what it is. All I know how to do is to get by. Someday, if I discover my purpose, I'll feel I'm beginning to live.
~ Rick Warren