Quotes About Struggle

Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'

I still feel like I'm jumping on an elevator -- weightless and pulled down at the same time.

There is a story about a Cherokee grandfather who is teaching his grandson about life. He says to his grandson, "A fight is going on inside me. It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One is evil; he is anger, envy, greed, arrogance, self-pity, resentment, and superiority. The other is good; he is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, generosity, and compassion. This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too.

That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.

I am having a quarter-life crisis," I announced to my mother. "My generation never had those, we just had babies and thought about killing them from time to time.

Django: "Would you buy it if I told you that it's always darkest before the dawn? Or that there's a light at the end of the tunnel? Course there's always a possibility that it's an oncoming train. But still.

Niektórzy s?dz?, ?e sowiety dlatego tylko s? piek?em, ?e tam ludzie mr? z g?odu, ?e tysi?ce gin? w wymy?lnych torturach. Otó? nie: sowiety s? piek?em tak?e i dlatego, ?e nie masz w?ród nich miejsca dla nadziei.

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.

They will become afraid to the point of harming people after they've been hurt, even people who try to help them.

Quitting-it was a dirty word in a place where pilgrims had endured harsh winters and where pioneers had struggled through death and disease to create new lives. Giving up or stepping back or setting aside something you thought you wanted- it was almost a shameful act.

Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can't. Because we don't really believe we can die.

His rage was a saw, going back and forth, cutting through arteries, hers.

Déjà, il était trop tard. Ils ne savaient bien. L'ennemi avait clairement gagné. Bientôt il ne resterait plus du miracle de la vie sur notre planète que la monoculture des vaches, cochons, chiens et poules maltraités, quelques autres espèces utiles -ainsi que des humains, d'horribles, de répugnants, d'imbattables humains.

Qu'est-ce qu'on a à se laisser écraser par l'ennemi, pendant qu'on se contente de bredouiller poliment qu'on n'est pas d'accord ?

Both the divine and the devil can sit together within a human being.

Desperation is often more powerful than inspiration.

Life has its ugliness and ups and downs, but look for the beauty and you will find it.

Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourselves.

We can't fight darkness with darkness. We have to find compassion, and embrace the darkness inside of us in order to understand it and, ultimately, to transcend it.

Drugs aren't always about feeling good. Many times they're about feeling less.

For those times when I wanted to blank out parts of my life or when I was dealing with some depression, there was nothing better than heroin. Nothing.

The only way you make it through life is to fight. You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.

And I have to say, what motivates me every day and I know my Democratic colleagues is to remember that every day 14 000 people get up in the morning with insurance that go to bed at night without it and most of them because they lost their job.