Quotes About Struggle

All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.

How many things do we have control over in our life? Just about zero, right? But that doesn't stop us from trying to control everything. And this is a major source of tension and stress.

Perhaps one stops smoking only when one starts to love cigarettes, becoming so enamored of their charms and so grateful for their benefits that one at last begins to grasp how much is lost by giving them up, how urgent it is to find substitutes for some of the seductions and powers that cigarettes so magnificently combine.

His liberators were leaving the freedman to wither on the vine.

Trapped inside the snotrag," Keith said, "is a crumb of angel food trying to get out." Lana

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Sebagai republik yang merdeka, Indonesia berusia lima puluh tahun, tetapi kedengaran lebih mirip sebuah kekaisaran tak terkendali daripada sebuah negara bangsa modern.

Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,That from the nunneryOf thy chaste breast and quiet mind,To war and arms I fly.

A troubled life beats having no life at all

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some isappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

I don't think any of us are prepared for the bitter pill we're sometimes asked to swallow.

There was a stubborn strain of authoritarianism in More that embarrasses some of his modern admirers. Having never revolted against his own father, he could be merciless to those who dared to rebel against the surrogate fathers that every society raises as a standard of order in the world.

In the history of mankind, the fine art of killing one another in a civilized and uniformed manner has been elusive.

Then this travesty of manhood reascended to his feet, and said, whether speaking to me or to himself I could not tell

Ordinarily I believe that I have as high a spirit as the average man, and as solid a resolution; but when one has been dragged through the Valley of Humiliation, and plunged, again and again, into the Waters of Bitterness and Privation, a man can be constrained to a course of action of which, in his happier moments, he would have deemed himself incapable. I know this of my own knowledge.

He leaped, shrieking, off the bed, and sprang at me, clasping my throat with his horrid hands, bearing me backwards on to the floor; I felt his breath mingle with mine * * * and then God, in His mercy, sent oblivion.

Let this hell be our heaven.