“Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time didn’t mean anything, nothing had form but I was still me, you know? And I was warm and I was loved and I was finished. Complete. I don’t understand about theology or dimensions, or any of it, really but I think I was in heaven. And now I’m not. I was torn out of there. Pulled out by my friends. Everything here is hard, and bright, and violent. Everything I feel, everything I touch this is hell. Just getting through the next moment, and the one after that knowing what I’ve lost…”

“One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.”

“Get this; without a continuous struggle, your previous struggles will become a waste. Stay on and hold on until the success become evident.”

“The priviledges we didn’t get, let us make sure that those coming after us get it.Let us clear the way, remove the stones, level the ground and decorate the side walks so that the coming generation of young Christians can run without having to struggle so much because of the road.”

“She had once seen a heron flying across the estuary and trying, while it was on the wing, to swallow an eel which it had caught. The eel, in turn, was struggling to escape from the gullet of the heron and appeared a quarter, a half, or occasionally three-quarters of the way out. The indecision expressed by both creatures was pitiable. They had taken on too much.”

“you have to have the fight to win to win the fight – (G Swiss)”

“The moment you need to get started is called “now”.”

“In a world where everyone was trying to radiate success while praying for actual profits, Brooke’s margins narrowed and narrowed.”

“As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.”

“Don’t think of your struggle as an inconvenience instead think of it as a way to grow.”

“Giving 100% doesn’t mean that every day you will accomplish more than the last, it means you give your best attempt each day. Some days you will struggle, some days will be hard but if you focus solely on doing what you can in each moment, the day will not be lost. Focus on doing what you can when you can.”

“You can look at your struggles as a life-ruining problem or you can see your struggles as a challenge to make you better.”