Patricia Briggs Quotes

That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I think, ... To avoid it is avoidance. We're not going to avoid things.

Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.

... I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch of solid ground, and then dig my heels in and fight to start over.

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.

It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

All people—all lives—are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

I think in life the key thing is just to fight really hard to make sure something survives. If it looks like you've done everything you can to avoid failure, just move forward, move on and learn from it.

My message is to never quit, never give up. When you have a little trouble here and there, just keep fighting. In the end, it will pay off.

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

I don't deal in frustration. I'm a fighter. And everything I've ever gotten, I've had to fight for.

I just look back on my season [2004] as a year where I've had to prove myself. I've had to fight all the way through to the end.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog. I'm always fighting to overcome the obstacle. I can really understand what's that about.

We don't win what we don't fight for.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

Not everything comes together in the best way ever every day. It just doesn't.

I never fight, except against difficulties.