Unavoidable Struggles Quotes

My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once you're laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what I'm saying, because the only way to find your personal low is to slip and roll down that mountain of yours, straight through to the bottom, no holds barred.

I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful than the lists that reduce it to an anorexic assembly of tics and obsessions.

Painfully to attain possession of what we do not want, and then painfully to waste our days in attempting to rid ourselves of it, seems to be a part of our discipline here below.

I don't believe we get to choose in life what we get to deal with and what we don't.

I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.

At certain times in your life, some things are heavier than others.

I don't think life is this Instagram fairytale everyone makes it out to be. Life is super heavy.

The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.