Quotes tagged ‘struggles’

“Empty yourself of thoughts, images, beliefs, labels, tendencies, concepts, details, struggles, fears, desires, memories, expectations, personal stories and social conditionings. Have the courage to just witness and simply be.”

— Conscious Arrival, instagram.com

“It takes a village to raise a kid. I'm looking for that village.”

— Breteni Morgan-Berg, imdb.com

“I'm a douche, but I make you laugh.”

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Martin, Brett Gelman, imdb.com

“What part of me not giving a flying fuck are you struggling with, exactly?”

— Lisa McGee, Michelle Mallon, Jamie Lee O'Donnell, imdb.com

“Our battle, our struggle, is to create art. Our weapon is the moving picture. Because we have the moving picture, our paintings will grow and recede; our poetry will be shadows that lengthen and conceal; our light will play across living faces that laugh and agonize; and our music will linger and fi…”

— Steven Katz, F. W. Murnau, John Malkovich, imdb.com

“It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about.”

— Pink Floyd, open.spotify.com

“Whoever told you that life would be easy, I promise that person was lying to you.”

— NF, open.spotify.com

“Everything passed away in an instant, with nothing left behind except the scars of things I injured and despised.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“It wasn't always easy, but suffering is something I've had to accept.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Irony deepens a person, helps them mature. It's the entrance to salvation on a higher plane, to a place where you can find a more universal kind of hope.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“A dark omnipresent pool of water. It was probably always there, hidden away somewhere. But when the time comes it silently rushes out, chilling every cell in your body. You drown in that cruel flood, gasping for breath. You cling to a vent near the ceiling, struggling, but the air you manage to brea…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“When I was drowning, that's when I could finally breathe.”

— Taylor Swift, open.spotify.com

“I painted this because I felt like the play was about life, you know? And life is full of color. And we each get to come along and we add our own color to the painting, you know? And even though it’s not very big, the painting, you sort of have to figure that it goes on forever, you know, in each di…”

— Joe Lawson, Kay Oyegun, Kevin Pearson , Justin Hartley, imdb.com

“Life feels like Pac-Man sometimes, I guess. It’s the same game over and over again. Same board. Same ghosts. Sometimes, you get a bunch of cherries but eventually and inevitably, those ghosts catch up with you.”

— Shukree Tilghman, Jas Waters, Randall Pearson, Sterling K. Brown, imdb.com

“I don’t deserve to struggle anymore, I deserve to actually live and I finally recognize that.”

— Damon Fizzy, twitter.com

“Some folks are afraid to heal because it is easier to be attached to the suffering, then to let go and be open to the possibility of a full heart.”

— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com

“Believe me; the reward is not so great without the struggle.”

— Wilma Rudolph, books.google.com

“It’s the perfect time to return to the basics of your spiritual practice. Meditate more seriously, pray with greater sincerity, and know that you are being guided. This, too, shall pass.”

— Jordan Bach, twitter.com

“There are two kinds of idiots. Those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com

“I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com