Quotes About Struggle

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

Things come apart much easier than they go together.

Ki gy?z? Mi az: gy?zni? A legbiztosabb vereség a gy?zelem.

I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" (Rom. 7:18). As someone has said, even the spirituality we do possess is corrupted by our nature. We have nothing to brag about. On the contrary, God must always give us grace to bear with our faults and mercy to forgive our sins.

Some are obviously living in bondage. Others give the appearance that they have overcome such problems. But the fact remains that even if it is not apparent in a person's outward behavior, this is the true state of all our hearts.

When we see around us the tragedy of not taking this truth seriously and when we experience within ourselves the veracity of the truth, we will be positioned to move forward in our spiritual progress. We also will have a different attitude toward those who more obviously struggle in areas where we might only secretly have a problem. Day by day, an awareness of our condition will help us grow spiritually.

A deep distress hath humanized my Soul.

The grim shapeTowered up between me and the stars, and still,For so it seemed, with purpose of its ownAnd measured motion like a living thing,Strode after me.

Who, doomed to go in company with pain,And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train!Turns his necessity to glorious gain.

Something between a hindrance and a help.

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

A deep distress hath humanised my soul.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity.

The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A narrow wind complains all day How some one treated him; Nature, like us, is sometimes caught Without her diadem. - Beclouded

The heavy weight of many a weary day Not mine, and such as were not made for me.

Men lies about that,Some of 'em cries about that,Some of 'em dies about that,Everybody fightin' about a spoonful,That spoon, that spoon, that.

Well, long way from home and, Can't sleep at all. You know another mule, Is kickin in your stall.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke That's serious. Lose a few bucks. That's not.

Wo Hunger herrscht, ist auf die Dauer kein Friede." ("Where there is hunger, there cannot be lasting peace.) Speech before the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 1973

That day, we were all interned in the "S" barracks (the punishment barracks)—the Frank family, too. We all had our own problems, of course. I found my sister again there, and my parents and my brother, and we didn't pay very much attention to what was going on around us. But still, a family like that, with two children. We knew that they were there, that they had been in hiding. What a shame to have been caught at the last minute.

Near the bolts on the door, there was a hole through which you could look to see the landscape. If you were lucky enough to get a glimpse outside without being pushed away, you could breathe a little and put your thoughts in order.

Într-o noapte m-am întors acas?, ÅŸi Trish, care credeam c?-i atât de echilibrat? emoÅ£ional, tocmai încercase s? se spânzure. Magic, nu? Åži-a pierdut jum?tate din via?? mâncând produse dietetice s? nu-ÅŸi strice ficatul, iar cealalalt? jum?tate încercând s? se sinucid?.

Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.