Quotes About Struggle

Problem was that the blues used to creep over him slow: a gradual trough, then a slow climb up the other side. But now his mind knew what to expect and ramped things up straightaway, from zero to critical in a matter of minutes.

Squib could allow that he missed having a daddy, even a fake one, so long as he kept that thought inside his own head. Even if that daddy did drink beer like it was keeping him alive instead of the opposite. Even if he did raid Momma's coffee can for change and spend it on lottery scratch tickets.

Koboi before, and I will do it again. This determination was fuelled by sadness.

It would not be like a movie. It would be like life in Ireland: cold and hard and with no happy ending.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

Difficulty shows what men are.

Everyone's life is a warfare, and that long and various.

You are a little soul carrying a dead body, as Epictetus said.

Resistance is vain in any case; it only leads to useless struggle while inviting grief and sorrow.

The philosopher's lecture room is a 'hospital': you ought not to walk out of it in a state of pleasure, but in pain; for you are not in good condition when you arrive.

Rahats?z edici bir sorunun sakin bir ÅŸekilde üstesinden gelmek, benim içsel huzurum için ödediÄŸim bedeldir. Kayg? ve endiÅŸeden özgür kalmam için ödediÄŸim ÅŸeydir; iÅŸe yaramaz bir ÅŸey için deÄŸil.

What would Heracles have been if he had said, How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men? What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is most difficult of all things.

Make a bad beginning and you'll contend with troubles ever after.

What would have become of Hercules, do you think, if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar – and no savage criminals to rid the world of? [33] What would he have done in the absence of such challenges? Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules.

Behold the birth of tragedy: when idiots come face to face with the vicissitudes of life.

it is no easy feat to hold onto your inner harmony while collecting accolades. When grasping for one, you are likely to drop the other.

It is no light thing, said he, to endure poverty uncomplainingly; and a difficult thing to bear wealth without becoming arrogant.

Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!

Our lives are not good—it is not the Afghanistan we remember—but it is still life.

only a couple of miles east of the Helmand River, where villages were regularly patrolled by the Taliban.

If heaven may be found here and now, then heaven cannot be merely found in the absence of struggle as most of us assume, but in the very heart of our struggles. If Jesus' message is true, then our deepest challenges may offer our most profound opportunities. Heaven is found in the Dark Wood!

While freedom can be achieved, it may also be reduced or rescinded, It can never be taken for granted.

Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember