Quotes About Struggle

made a decision. She decided that every time her father or her mother was beastly to her, she would get her own back in some way or another. A small victory or two would help her to tolerate their idiocies and would stop her from going crazy. You must remember that she was still hardly five years old and it is not easy for somebody as small as that to score points against an all-powerful grown-up. Even so, she was determined to have a go. Her father, after what had

There isn't a hope.

The peace we are offered is not a peace that is free from tragedy, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, or heartache. It is peace rooted in the trust that the life Jesus gives us is deeper, wider, stronger, and more enduring than whatever our current circumstances are, because all we see is not all there is and the last word about us and our struggle has not yet been spoken.

How we respond to what happens to us - especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over - is a creative act.

Catherine of Aragon said,"None get to God but through trouble.

for a staggering number of people in our world the for of the Jesus message has been buried under a massive pile of againsts. Somewhere

The Bible was written by Jewish people who belonged to a Jewish minority living under the oppression of a succession of massive military superpowers who had conquered them: The Egyptians, the Persians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Greeks, the Romans. These

We come up against our powerlessness and often our first response is If I were just more powerful Ã¢â'¬Â¦ But this isn't an obstacle we power through, it's a truth we make peace with. I was starting to learn that Ã¢â'¬Â¦

How we respond to what happens to us—especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over—is a creative

The worrying thing is that he was well aware of his slide, but didn't seem to want — or be able — to do anything to help it.

He would struggle with finding any value in himself and would despair at how he perceived the rest of humanity to be acting.

Edwards knew that the constant spending and deliberate time-wasting was taking a toll. 'I know that if I get to the end of this year I'll have no dignity left at all,' he said. 'It's all gone. I live in a big fantasy world... It's sad.' He'd often end the day drinking even more to block out the world and allow him to get to sleep.

Despite having two young children to mother, [Sylvia Plath] seemed inept at the basics of life, always needing help.

BEREA, KENTUCKY, 1939.

Sometimes lightning struck twice; sometimes, one person got more than their share of suffering.

In Neptune, the past was always grabbing at your ankles, trying to pull you back.

You always have a choice, she spat. You fight until you see you're beaten, and then you keep on fighting.

dignity was a luxury in a fight with Lyndon Johnson, a luxury too expensive to afford.

NO RADIO; no movies; limited reading—little diversion between the hard day just past and the hard day just ahead. "Living was just drudgery then," says Carroll Smith of Blanco. "Living—just living—was a problem. No lights. No plumbing. Nothing. Just living on the edge of starvation. That was farm life for us. God, city people think there was something fine about it. If they only knew Ã¢â'¬Â¦

The common problem, yours and mine, everyone's/Is not to fancy what were fair in life/Provided it could be—but finding first/What may be and how to make it fair up to our means.

I'VE BEEN ENCOUNTERING questions of race, of segregation—of America's great crime—all my professional life.

his congressional career almost before it began. Herman

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.