Quotes About Struggle

I don't need this, I was thinking. But I'm weak. I'll be the first to admit it. If a chick presses her face against mine, all soft perfume and whispers, what am I going to do? Say no?

Nothing's free in this world. Pain is.

Welcome to life. Life, something so sweet, something worth fighting for.

As a software developer, you are your own worst enemy. The sooner you realize that, the better off you'll be.

He loved him and considered him his best friend, yet he hated some of the things he did.

As Woods lay unconscious on the road at 2:25 a.m. on November 27, 2009, blood on his teeth and lips, he finally appeared as he truly was-a vulnerable, fragile, deeply wounded person.

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.

Appreciate the struggles as opportunities to wake up.

I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.

Lives were complicated. The smallest things could trip you up. Those who could least afford it paid the most. Things could escalate in a heartbeat. The biggest mystery was how to turn it down without bowing down. And a life, in all its singularity and strangeness, was always worth the lifting, the telling, and the protecting, and never only for its fragility.

Today, merely being born guarantees that you will face a never-ending stream of complexity within your home, on the highway, at work, and everywhere in between.

But the one thing all of the people in the Ape Yard had in common was that they were trapped, caught in that basin of poverty and servitude to Doc Bobo in the hollow, and held in place by the weight of the white structure beyond. For them, escape seemed futile at the outset.

They were suffering from a diminished heart, a diminished soul.

Keep them poor and keep them tired, and they'll never leave." How well he understood his people.

When she learned of the verdicts, Nancy Maddox pulled her granddaughter, Jo Ann, aside and whispered, "Life is like always living under a big rock. Always look at it and pray that it won't fall on you." Nancy felt as though she had been buried under an avalanche.

There is no road home.

Cara's stomach knotted with anger, and a strange sort of hunger. Let's see who the fittest is now, Dad.