#struggling

I can't even take comfort in the quiet strength of pushing through circumstances no one would fault me for collapsing under. ↗

— Unknown

#circumstances #collapsing #comfort #hard #inspirational

As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#began #bookstore #bookstores #close #dream

I don’t know where I’m going on this path. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. You had to be lost, before you could be found. These are the truths. You had to be confused, before you could find clarity; you had to suffer, before you could find peace. These were the only ways, life could happen. Of course you were confused before you found clarity. If you weren't confused, then you would already be clear. Of course you were lost before you were found. If you were already found, then you wouldn't be lost. Of course there would be suffering before peace. If there was already peace, then there wouldn't be suffering. One necessarily came before the other. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#buddhism #confusion #enlightenment #finding-one-s-way #meditation

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#child #grade #last #learn #needs

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#because #get #i #outsider #people

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#capture #crisis #difference #economic #economic crisis

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#anything #be patient #become #even #fathers

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data. ↗

— Reed Hundt

#carry #data #easily #instead #need

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#dishonest #disorder #even #exist #ignoring

There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#dance #day #every #every day #farmers