Struggles Quotes

“Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears”
― Demi Lovato

“One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire – then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.”
― Robert Fulghum, Uh-oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

“...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“God alone knows exactly what you and I must endure in order to form His character in us. It is in our trials that God refines us and removes our impurities. Like refined gold, when we pass through our trials, people will see His perfect reflection in us.”
― Wendy Blight, Hidden Joy in a Dark Corner: The Transforming Power of God's Story

“Tentacles is my term — the Tentacles are the evil tasks that invade my life. Like, for example, my American History class last week, which necessitated me writing a paper on the weapons of the Revolutionary war, which necessitated me traveling to the Metropolitan Museum to check out some of the old guns, which necessitated me getting the subway, which necessitated me being away from my cell phone and email for 45 minutes, which meant that I didn’t get to respond to a mass mail sent out by my teacher asking who needed extra credit, which meant other kids snapped up the extra credit, which meant I wasn’t going to get a 98 in the class, which meant I wasn’t anywhere close to a 98.6 average (body temperature, that’s what you needed to get), which meant I wasn’t going to get into a Good College, which meant I wasn’t going to have a Good Job, which meant I wasn’t going to have health insurance, which meant I’d have to pay tremendous amounts of money for the shrinks and drugs my brain needed, which meant I wasn’t going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I’d feel ashamed, which meant I’d get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn’t get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing — homelessness. If you can’t get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Momma, a welfare cheater. A criminal who couldn't stand to se her kids go hungry, or grow up in slumbs and end up mugging people in dar corners. I guess the system didn't want her to get off relief, the way it kept sending social workers around to be sure Momma wasn't trying to make things better.”
― Dick Gregory

“You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Life’s gonna kick you in the butt; that’s what it does.
But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn’t in life? (Kira, The Mishmorat)”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Tempter's Snare

“It's faith that got me here. So it's faith that will get me through.”
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love

“When you can see the love of God through your struggles and you don't need another person to fill a void, you're in a pretty good place.”
― Jen Stephens, The Heart's Journey Home

“I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Knowing the path to follow doesn't make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we'd all have arrived.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“The real achievers are those who, in the dreary pit of sacrifice, still smile up at the goal.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political and economic struggles.”
― DeWitt Henry Parker

“Looking straight into Rochelle's eyes he adds, "I don't cave in to temptation.”
― Marianne Curley, The Dark

“We must learn from our struggles.”
― Roger Thurow, The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change

“We will never become the people of hope and blessing we're meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the glory and pain, beauty and suffering that are in lives all around us.”
― Richard Dahlstrom, The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice, and Love

“My pastor used to say you’re either coming out of a tough season, in the middle of a tough season, or heading into a tough season.”
― Craig Groeschel, Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are

“Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.”
― Thomas A. Dorgan

“Life turns, and returns death. Where death digs its claws into the grave only to pull out life, as a baby from a womb; and the recycle of air, the recycle of struggles that never achieve satisfaction, in a constant turning world, of an untuned universe.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Life itself has an incomparable ability to test your wits that you won’t require anything extra or don’t have to go anywhere outside your space to get them tested. – Aniruddha.”
― Aniruddha Sastikar