Quotes About Struggle

Is this hell, to be stuck in a continual loop of our greatest disappointments? [Richelle Bach's diary]

Life has a way of making us pay for our happiness. [Richelle Bach]

The greatest shackles we bear in this life are those forged by our own fears.

Sometimes we need the darkness to reveal our light.

I was raised Catholic. I went to church every Sunday with my family, then came home and got beaten up by my old man. He beat God right out of me.

How did I come to such a dark place? I don't know where my road now leads but I fear the shadowlands that lie ahead. But it is not the darkness of the path I fear. Just the loneliness of the trail.

One cannot understand the power of grace until one has needed it. Or given it.

We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.

the only thing you can be sure of in this life is that sooner or later everything goes wrong.

From time to time there emerged in the West voluntary communist societies. One of them was the Virginia Company in Jamestown (1607); another, New Harmony of Indiana, founded in 1825 by the British philanthropist Robert Owen. All such attempts broke down sooner or later, largely because of their inability to resolve the problem of "free riders," members who drew a full share of the community's harvest while doing little if any work.

Of course, the lower classes do not acquiesce peaceably to their exploitation; they resist, although for as long as there is private property they merely succeed in replacing one form of exploitation with another. For this reason, in the words of the Communist Manifesto, so far all the history of societies has been the history of class struggles.

To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people.

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

But thoughts don't care about truth and shit. They sit up in your mind and fuck with you whenever.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

Mudbone: See I've lived through hard times before. People talk about these as hard times. Hard times was way back. They didn't even have a year for it. Just called it "Hard Times." It was dark all the time. I think the sun came out on Wednesday. And it you didn't have your ass up early. You missed it. So I happened to be out there one Wednesday… and the sun hit me right in the face. I grabbed a bunch of it and rubbed it all over myself.

Ron Dellums, the Oakland boy who tried to stop

Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

African Americans at Ford had to choose between giving up their good industrial jobs, moving to apartments in a segregated neighborhood of San Jose, or enduring lengthy commutes between North Richmond and Milpitas. Frank Stevenson bought a van, recruited eight others to share the costs, and made the drive daily for the next twenty years until he retired. The trip took more than an hour each way.