Quotes About Struggle

You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies.

Life is a delicate dance between holding on and letting go, finding balance in the ever-changing rhythms of existence.~ Aloo Denish

Hatred is the anger of the weak.

Hatred - The anger of the weak.

We all fall sometime, you're not the first. I know it hurts. In the end, you'll find what you deserve.

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being cheated.

She couldn't quite make it stick, and knew the girl inside her was to blame. That was what happened when a woman went to war with the girl she'd been.

It is obvious that you like to be in control of things. With this girl, you lose control. You despise that, especially since she is younger.- Maria Delgado

I spent the strangest days of my life in Amirbar. In Amirbar I left shreds of my soul and most of the energy that fired my youth. Perhaps I came down from there more serene, I don't know, but I was everlastingly weary too. What happened to me since then has been a matter of simply surviving each day's difficulties. Trivialities. Not even the ocean could give back to me my vocation for dreaming with my eyes open: I used that up in Amirbar and received nothing in return.

Me intriga sobremanera la forma como se repiten en mi vida estas caídas, estas decisiones erróneas desde su inicio, estos callejones sin salida cuya suma vendría a ser la historia de mi existencia

Pero toda rebeldía contra la imagen paterna, magnificada y opresora, se paga durante el resto de la vida. La única manera de salir de ese laberinto, por el que todos nos internamos alguna vez, es llegar a la convicción de que al padre, en vez de substituirlo, hay que intentar prolongarlo, en la medida de nuestras propias fuerzas y de nuestros propios demonios. No es fácil, ni suele ser grato, pero no existe otro camino para enfrentar el reto de vivir nuestra propia vida.

There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how full we felt; we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy.

That piece of red, white and blue bunting means five thousand years of struggle upwards. It is the full-grown flower of ages of fighting for liberty. It is the century plant of human hope in bloom.

The fact is, the heart and mind aren't always friendly. And in my case, they're barely speaking.

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.

Sometimes destiny lies just outside of our reach.

You cannot outwalk your problems. Can never run fast enough to evade them completely.

What if it can't be worked out? What if I'm—what if I'm broken for good?

For the moment, I'm just Daire—a girl straddling two bloodlines. One I was given—one I must earn.

Because the truth is, as committed as I am to clearing my energy and only focusing on the good, positive things that I want, life is still life.It's still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.

I really like him. I can't help it. And no matter how hard i try to pretend otherwise, it doesn't make it any less true.

I lay sweating, shaking, doing my best to quell the overwhelming need--to extinguish the dark flame inside me. A flame that burns brighter, hotter, stronger each day. A fire so insatiable it'll consume everything in its path.