Quotes About Struggle

Mind you, Darwin fretted about a lot of stuff, especially his health, his kids, and maybe with just cause. On occasion he would write a fit of histrionic despair, such as "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything

For our purposes, if we are to look at the evolution that led to where we are now, instead of the nice neat tree, I think it could reasonably be described as one big, million-year clusterfuck.

When it comes to expressions of violence, humans excel.

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward." Job 5:7

Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

There a lot of things I can't do," he says. "With my... health." "Well," I say, "can you kiss girls?

I had figured out that it was a bad idea, but, well, it´s hard to argue with love, even when it´s making you do something really stupid.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back

As billionaire investor Warren Buffett famously put it: "Actually, there's been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.

The path of a single man can be difficult but the results of what he does can be great.

I kicked, shouted an obscene word, got another faceful of goo for my troubles, and did the only thing left available to me. I started to laugh. This was a stupid way to die, all right. But also a god damned funny one.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

35If your kinsman, being in straits, comes under your authority, and you hold him as though a resident alien, let him live by your side: 36do not exact from him advance or accrued interest,* but fear your God. Let him live by your side as your kinsman. 37Do not lend him your money at advance interest, or give him your food at accrued interest.

One of the built-in frustrations of parenthood is the daily struggle to get our children to behave in ways that are acceptable to us and to society. This can be maddening, uphill work. Part of the problem lies in the conflict of needs.

Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle down to my inner toothpick.

You just can't know the feeling of being mother to a girl who you thought might die every single day - right up until the day she did.

couldn't quite exorcise

I'm at the stage of the job when you just wish you hadn't started.

Bloody biology curses women every time.

Day after day, anxiety spun its web around my thoughts and spread to all corners of my heart.

I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.