Quotes about Struggle

Now, Audrey, to me secret: while I have days that I struggle, some pretty terrible days, it mean that I also have stunning days. I weigh them both on the same side of the scale, lesson you taught. Life is short. Life is fragile. I shall grasp it with both hands and hang on, trying always to find the joy.

Sometimes the roads we choose in life are just messy.

We cannot slay our incapacity and rise above it, but that is precisely what we wanted. Incapacity exists. No one should deny it, find fault with it or shout it down.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty.

I'm one of the undeserving poor.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Yes, that's the worst of it. It's a desperately vexatious thing that, after all one's reflections and quiet determinations, we should be ruled by moods that one can't calculate on beforehand.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.