struggle

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

__ear should stop you for a moment so you can determine whether you're willing to sacrifice something to get you want.

__o you've been having a tough time. You don't know how long more you can hold on. Remember bad days don't last forever. Keep patience alive!

Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

Where is my oasis? Too far fromhere for me to crawl with thesedead legs, refusing to co-operateHands and fingers clawing uselesslythrough the grains of sand...

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

It is better to struggle pursuing what matters than to excel at achieving the inconsequential.

...Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart that breaks...

We all have paid the cost of our success.

No ordinary effort stops the wheel.In sleep it spins without resistance.Passively, falling deeper, lacking the will to activate any change.

You can't truly appreciate the top if you've never hit rock bottom.

How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!