Quotes about Struggle

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I'm half-and-half on school. I had fun in grade school, but when I went to college, it was the worst place I've ever been in my entire life.

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.