Quotes about Struggle

Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth.

he said, he didn't know what to do. He couldn't move forward. He thought, they should move on. He started crying. Not for himdelf, for her. He'd rescued her from her lousy life, and now he was throwing her back. He felt like a shit for doing it, for things having to be that way, for not being able to gove her what she wanted. The last thing he wanted was to hurt her. The only part that wasn't in the manual, was her response: She started to laugh. Oh, give me a break, she said.

Don't you ever get scared?" I ask. "Of what?" She says. "Of not being good enough." "You mean at writing?" L'il asks. I nod. "What if I'm the only one who thinks I can do it and no one else does? What if I'm fooling myself-" "Oh, Carrie." She smiles. "Don't you know that every writer feels that way? Fear is part of the job.

And it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny.

The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Apart from the social insects, no other species has been clever enough to invent war It is an institution optimally configured to benefit the alphas

God wouldn't exist just because she forced herself to believe, any more than Cade would be all right just because she wanted him to be.

Believing in God had to do with a system of convictions, deep faith, things that her parents and her sister and Jonathan had, things that had never come easily to Blair.

You can't just check out and think it will all be over. It won't be over for anyone who loves you. You'll only leave them to run after the pieces that scatter in the angry wind. You'll leave them desperately trying to solve the problems you wouldn't . . . all while plugging their own wounds. Even if you're like me, single without children, you could impact generations. Is quick relief worth it?

She pulls upright, wiping her face 'But that's another one of those clichés I don't get. The light. I feel it sometimes. It makes sense that you have to beat back the darkness, but I just don't understand why there's darkness in the first place. Sometimes I feel like the world has fractured into a million pieces and they're closing in on me, and I have to push each piece back with my hands and my feet and my head to keep it from squeezing me to death.

Everyone here is in a lot of pain, and as they say, hurting people hurt people. Part of your recovery