Quotes about Struggle

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.

Notice how those who have medicated away their hardships with illegal drugs, alcohol, or sex can seem immature. They may look forty-five, but they have the character of an adolescent. Find a person who has weathered storms rather than avoided them and you will find someone who is wise.