Quotes about Struggle

The shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe it is always a choice between embracing the darkness of one or the saving grace of the other.

Grief and a change of location can often be more than the mind and body can handle.

my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.

The journey itself was the architect of the wood. The interior would never be fully dark because the struggle had cracked it, providing an avenue for the light.

The darkest hours of history have always been born of the efforts of one people to dehumanize another.

My mama used to say the blues is an ailment that don't like no sunshine in the room.

Things could be worse is wearing thin. I'm exhausted. I'm confused. I am effectively talking to the air.

There is a moth in a cocoon outside the window... [It] has labored for hours... Inside the darkness, does it know why it must struggle? Somewhere in the mass of cells and neurons that make up its tiny body, is it aware that the struggle is God's way of pumping fluid into its wings? If not for the struggle, it would come into the world with a swollen body and flightless wings. It would be a creature without strength, unable to fulfill its purpose.

The most difficult battles are not the ones fought outside the armor, but the ones within it.

Most of the time when we got a tough row to plow, the Good Lord makes us fall a little short and puts another mule in the pasture. You don't never know whether you're the blind mule or the deaf mule, but you're always one or the other.

Tough times make good people and bad people.

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not