Quotes About Struggle

The wilderness is where all the creatives and prophets and system-buckers and risk-takers have always lived, and it is stunningly vibrant. The walk out there is hard, but the authenticity out there is life.

I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.

Just because it's your brain does not mean it's on your side.

There's something called the Crab Effect. If you put a bunch of crabs in a bowl and if, while they're in there crawling all over each other, one of them tries to climb out, the rest of them will try to pull him back down instead of helping to push him out. No wonder they're called crabs.

Life often turns to shit before it turns to shinola.

We need kickass people to be out of struggle and living large and on purpose so they can be an inspiration to others who want to rise up, too.

Sometimes it can feel like The Universe is conspiring against us.

By shifting your identity to align with the habits you're working to adopt, you prepare yourself to live in a totally new reality by erasing the inner struggle of I'm doing X but I'm actually an impostor so it probably won't last because it's not really who I am.

It's incredible. The kid could flip over a car without straining his back. I can barely pull up my pants without having to be rushed to the hospital.

I'm assuming if you're reading this that there are some areas of your life that aren't looking so good either.

One week later, he lies in the hospital room, his breath moving deliberately in and out of his body. He feels as if he has been in this small room forever, that his home life is a blurry dream he cannot really remember. He moves his feet in circles, first the left, then the right. Their swelling has not stopped., and he knows that soon he will be unable to move them at all.

Brant growled deep in his throat. "I liked it better when it was just a worthless hunk of rock. Now it's a worthless hunk of rock, and it's mocking me.

So, Rosalind became a symbol, first of an argumentative swot, then of a downtrodden woman scientist, and finally of a triumphant heroine in a man's world. She was none of these things and would have hated all of them. She was simply a very good scientist with an ambition, as she told Colin from her hospital bed, to be a Fellow of the Royal Society before she was 40. But she died at thirty-seven.

Sometimes, it seems, when you let people know what you're going through, help arrives when you're least expecting it, bringing you what you didn't know you needed, in forms above and beyond what you've ever imagined.

Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off . . .

Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off...

Thomas cracks his joints on the steering wheel. It's all right. I mean, it's not, but of course you wouldn't know. It's not exactly something I advertise. And I only bring it up now to let you know I'm in your corner. Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends. So I understand. That's all.

Kevin was right, Karena thinks, there is grotesquerie here, but it's not Karena and Charles. It's Charles's disorder, the way it reduces a grown man to sobbing panic on the floor. The way it renders Karena unable to feel. The way it takes you by the hand, nodding and smiling slyly, and leads you back to the same old place every time, so just when you think everything might be all right after all, you come home and open a door to a room full of blood.

I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

Michael," I said between kisses, "if I were to become like you, do you think . . . that is, we seem to have this . . . thing." We seem to have this thing? Gods, what was wrong with me?

At one point, I even thought, 'Oh, I'll take diet pills.' I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.

Funny though. If he finds a way to make a morally just cause heard, he becomes a saint...His worst enemy is himself. Which is what you have to deal with if you want to be with him. He's anxious like the show-off drunk at a karaoke bar when the words don't come up on the screen. Make sure you give him the script so he has something to read from.

Hello?" my mother answers, sounding happy and normal and far removed from all that is falling apart around me. "He's dying," I say. "Soon. He's sick and shitting himself, and your daughters are the only people he can count on.

I love clothes, but I don't know what to put on myself, let alone others. I have a lot of help getting dressed.