#struggles

Sometimes it seemed that she and rudy were two people attempting to tango, sweating and trying, long after the orchestra had grown tired, long after everyone else had gone home. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#stagnant-relationships #struggles-in-relationships #life

She was nothing in particular. But at least she had a purpose. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#struggles #trying-hard #life

Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up. ↗

— Patti Callahan Henry

#infidelity #lying #relationships #struggles #relationships

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#helper #nerves #our #sharpens #skill

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#cannot #cheated #give #her #nature

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number. ↗

— Peter Arno

#dreams #me #number #our dreams #phone number

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#troubles #beauty

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing. ↗

— Alex Lowe

#fear #identifying #intrinsic #natural #natural fear

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#began #born #compels #humility #now

There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#because #best #best way #continues #earth