“When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.” MayLittlesTodayStruggleChildhoodGoodnessBottomCompareLittle ThingsGesturesBring Me Down Author:Natalia Vodianova
“I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.” PeopleTryingChildrenI CanDifferentMy OwnStruggleChildhoodIdentityJudgmentRelateSeatsFreakBeing DifferentFreakyIndividual DifferencesTrue IdentityOddballs Author:Dolly Parton
“Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.” KnowsWayFeelsLooksProblemKidsFacesChallengesStruggleGenerationsChildhoodWeightImplicationsObesityChildhood Obesity Author:Michelle Obama
“I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When it came to my childhood-growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially-my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.” HomeMotherParentLevelsStruggleGrowing UpPathGrowingChildhoodHavensSucceedBackgroundsTypicalSiblingBallerinaSingle ParentMy SiblingsParents Home Author:Misty Copeland
“... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.” FeelingsRealizingWonderStepsStruggleShareChildhoodStageAcceptancePrejudiceRelationBlindPossessionToleranceBitterSpotsSignificanceWombRace RelationsInfancyEmbryosBlind Spots Author:Sarah-Patton Boyle
“As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.” KnowsWantTryingChildrenFatherStruggleChildhoodStyleIdentityBattleOur ChildrenVictimForgivingLoyaltyRangeFierceOur FatherLearn To ForgiveParenting Styles Author:Augustus Napier
“We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country and millions of people are struggling to put food on the table. It is my absolute conviction that everyone in this country deserves a minimum standard of living and we've got to go forward in the fight to make that happen.” PeopleWorldCountryHappensFightingPovertyMillionsStruggleChildhoodMajorsHighestStandardsDeserveAbsolutesTablesRateConvictionMinimumWorld HistoryStandards Of Living Author:Bernie Sanders
“Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.” Has BeensAmericaFeltMy OwnStruggleChildhoodConflictWindowChiefsStrainMy Own Life Author:John Updike
“Mostly, I stand in awe of the every day women I knew from childhood that I interact with on Facebook. They struggle with juggling careers and raising children, endure hardships and occasional setbacks and yet do so with humility, grace and a sense of humor. Now that is inspiring!” ChildrenStruggleGraceChildhoodHumilityEndureAweHardshipSense Of HumorRaising ChildrenSetbackJuggling Author:Kambri Crews
“Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingIdeasJusticeKnownStruggleRightsShareChildhoodFrontsMovementCivil RightsBombsNativeNative AmericanGiving BackCivil Rights MovementBansQuakerCivil Right Movement Author:Bonnie Raitt
“We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is 'When our hair is white, we'll still have our sister love.” KnowsWorldMayPersonsSaidStillsDoneMomentsLastsDiesLeftGrowsParentMemoriesWhiteStruggleGrowing UpShareChildhoodTearsHairSorrowDaughterAwfulTriumphMy SisterHugKnow MeSisterSaid And DoneShanghaiSister LoveMoments Of Happiness Book:Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels Source: Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels
“Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.” PeopleWorldWellsRealizingSituationStruggleChildhoodDangerEssentialsAppreciateCrisisRaisedExcitementHouseholdShelterAdulthoodCraveCalmnessBenevolenceUnstableAccommodate Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.” IndividualStruggleChildhoodAcceptanceEmotionalTaughtWeaponsUniqueDiscoveryEndureIllnessMental IllnessTaught Us Author:Alice Miller