Quotes about Struggle

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

Some people tend to believe that I'm a strong believer, a strong Christian, but that's not true. I'm not a strong believer. I'm very weak.

Trans women, and women in general, have so many constraints placed on our bodies. As women, we are told not to show our bodies, and as trans people, we've been told not to exist.

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

I've fallen on my face. I've made mistakes. I've got plenty of records where I listen back, and I think, 'I wouldn't've done that.'

As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.

I think anytime in someone's faith journey, my faith journey also, you go through doubting... I think you kind of have to go through that, honestly, just to ask the tough questions... I mean, life is crazy, and to know that, honestly, a loving God is walking through it with me is very comforting for me.

We never had any money. All the money we used to get, my father would give to the Communist Party.

When you're not winning it's easy to complain!

A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.

America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.