Quotes About Struggle

Querida hermana: suponéis que Brasil es un trono de oro, pero es un yugo de hierro.»

La lección que Anita saca de la discusión con su marido es bien clara: la justicia es un lujo al alcance de muy pocos.

Cada vez que das un paso adelante, estás destinado a perturbar algo. Agitas el aire mientras avanzas, levantas polvo, alteras el suelo. Vas atropellando cosas. Cuando una sociedad entera avanza, ese atropello se hace en una escala mucho mayor; y cada cosa que trastornes, los intereses creados que quieras suprimir, todo se convierte en un obstáculo. MAHATMA GANDHI

le lanzó una mirada llena de rabia; en ese momento le hubiera gustado reventar a puñetazos la cara de ese antiguo aliado que le desafiaba abiertamente, pero pensó que la concordia entre portugueses y brasileños bien valía comerse el orgullo y los deseos de poner en su sitio a ese hijo de la grandísima.

Anita se debate entre el asco que siente hacia sí misma y el placer sin nombre de un amor que le parece un crimen.

Pero si el caminante es demasiado joven, le será imposible renunciar a sus sueños aunque el mundo se empeñe en robárselos.

Desde la entrada norte hasta la sur había cadáveres Australes, Ainari y Ritiones, todos mezclados en una papilla de sangre y lodo, vísceras y excrementos.

Así son las cosas, nos pasamos toda la vida buscando algo y cuando por fin lo tenemos al alcance de la mano, nos asaltan las dudas y no sabemos qué hacer.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

But the ideal is terribly difficult to grasp or to hold.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's An Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth and Hind Swaraj, Rabindranath Tagore's Nationalism and Gora, and Jawaharlal's Nehru's An Autobiography—is The Discovery of India.

But corpses cannot easily be overlooked; they come in the way.

Quba natti qabuu mitti Qabsoo Oromootiif jecha qawweelle yoo natti qaban Daqiqaa tokkofuu ijaa hin limsadhu

Soba wol qeeqa malee Oromoon Woljibbu tokkolle hin jiruu beekaa

So when you experience a so-called failure, don't view this as failure, but rather as a "character muscle-building" process. It's a process that will strengthen your resolve to transform your career much the same way a caterpillar transforms itself into an elegant butterfly. The job campaign necessitates that you embrace struggle and constructively address adversity. When you do so, new opportunities will present themselves sooner than you'd think possible.

In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good vs. evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good vs. doing nothing. -Deirdre Sullivan

I run to get out, when I have been stuck inside, reading to escape from life, not even able to sit up straight in my tiny bunk. I run to feel like I am doing something, when I am overwhelmed by all the things I can't do anything about.

While victories in the struggle are possible through Christ (vs. 25), they do not come easily or apart from daily battles involving just such self-sacrifice. All change is hard, and there must be powerful motivation to achieve it. Since change comes only gradually and through patient endurance, there must be hope.2

It is a clever "wile" of Satan to tempt men to think that they cannot do what God requires because they do not feel like doing it, or that they must do what they feel like doing and cannot help themselves.

The very person that such a client so dislikes is the person whom he has been allowing, strangely enough, to control his life by remote control. In reaction to the hated person he has been doing all he does over against that person. He is not free, but is bound by the very person whom he dislikes, and yet his anger burns so intensely that he is blinded to the foolishness of his pendulum action.

When clients think they are helpless, that some strange mysterious force is at work overpowering them, and they say that I Corinthians 10:13 does not apply to their case, the truth may be that they are not serious about wanting to do the Lord's will. They may be talking out of both sides of their mouths. They may deceive others or even themselves, in part, about the sincerity of their desire to obey God.

shook. I was used to getting a bad night's sleep, not to getting no sleep. I sat, ate, tried to hold myself together.

But as me mum used to say, 'It's always darkest before the dawn.' Things will get better; I'm sure of it." "What worries me is something my dad used to say." "Oh?" "For things to get better they must first get far worse." Her eyes widened. "Oh, dear." I had the feeling my dad knew more than her mum.

I had the bad guys fighting, the good guys fighting, the clock ticking.