Quotes about Struggle
Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.
— Henri Nouwen
When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected...part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others.
— Henri Nouwen
The people's revolution is on the march, and the devil and all his angels cannot prevail against it.
— Henry A. Wallace
Some murmur when the sky is clear and wholly bright to view, if one small speck of dark appear in their great heaven of blue: And some with thankful love are filled, if but one streak of light, one ray of God's good mercy, gild the darkness of their night.
— Henry B. Eyring
People lead lives of quiet desperation.
— Henry David Thoreau
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
— Henry David Thoreau
What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
— Henry David Thoreau
More men are beaten than fail. It is not wisdom they need or money, or brilliance, or "pull," but just plain gristle and bone.
— Henry Ford
I'll be here tomorrow If I can make it through today.
— Henry Rollins
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A church debt is the devil's salary.
— Henry Ward Beecher