Quotes About Struggle

We all got things under our skin. Everybody does. Like a glass sliver. Can't see nothin' there, but it works its way in deeper and gets to festerin' and hurts so that we're ready to just cut the whole thing out.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?" I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up.

They are like pythons in the jungle. The smallest child can crush a python egg. But let the snake hatch and grow and the python with squeeze and devour the child.

It's easy to hate the game when your losing.

For the third time since I began, my walk has been delayed. In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions---but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey. No matter how much I, or the rest of humanity wishes otherwise, life is not lived in smooth, downhill expressways, but in the obscure, perilous trails and rocky back roads of life where we stumble and feel our way through the fog of the unknown.

We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.

There is one day that has brought me unspeakable pain, & the effects of that day continue to cover & erode my world like rust. I suspect that someday the rust will eat through the joists & posts of my life & I will topple, literally as well as figuratively.

One day McKenna got hot enough

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak

if you take away everything a man lives for, then what does he live for?

Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time- while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

When you're struggling with lack, it's easy to become obsessed with all you don't have and forget what you do. It was nice to be reminded of all I had to be grateful for.

We never know what horrific and powerful currents run beneath the seemingly calm surface of another's life.

There have been seasons of my life when rejection rained down. And then there have been typhoons. Kimberly Rossi's Diary

Though adversity is the fertile soil in which the human spirit best grows, we loathe it still. I do not see how it can be otherwise, for no rational being seeks out pain and misfortune. Still, I cannot help but wonder if it is not somehow wrong to enjoy the fruit but curse the tree.

McKenna dropped to her knees, then fell to her side on the asphalt, moaning

Oftentimes, the hottest fires of hell are fueled from within.

You served your country. That was an honorable thing." "I wish it were that simple," he said. "I risked my life and had no idea what I was fighting for—a corrupt dictatorship that represented almost everything we're fighting against?

Or take fame for instance. For one brief moment, a man finds himself on a throne. And for a while he believes himself specialã…¡a little bit better than everyone else. But then he discovers that his throne is just another seat in an ongoing game of musical chairs and eventually he's gong to lose his place. Sometimes he spends the rest of his life trying to get back to the chair.

She didn't want to eat, but I insisted. She had already

We live in a world that's always making us work for love.

We live in a world that's always making us work for love. It's cause and effect. That's the story of my childhood. If I can be good enough, maybe my mother will love me. "The problem is, somewhere along the way you figure out that you can't ever be good enough. It finally just got to be too much for me. You hit this point where you just want to scream, 'Love me for who I am or get out of my life.

Sometimes the evolving terrain of life requires us to evolve with it. When those times come, we usually find ourselves quivering on the precipice of change as long as we can, because no one wants to dive headlong into the ravine of uncertainty. No one. Only when the pain of being becomes too much do we close our eyes and leap.