Quotes About Struggles

But at times I was seized with compassion. A Buddhist compassion, as cold as the conclusion of a metaphysical syllogism. A compassion not only for men but for all life which struggles, cries, weeps, hopes and does not perceive that everything is a phantasmagoria of nothingness.

quién gobierna el mundo?, puede que queramos replantearla de esta forma: ¿qué principios y valores gobiernan el mundo? Esa pregunta debería ser la más importante en la mente de los ciudadanos de los países ricos y poderosos, que disfrutan de un inusual legado de libertad, privilegios y oportunidades gracias a las luchas de aquellos que lucharon por ello antes y que ahora se enfrentan a funestas opciones para responder a retos de gran importancia humana.

The real question raised was not: Did Nixon employ evil methods against his political adversaries? but rather: Who were the victims? The answer is clear. Nixon was condemned, not because he employed reprehensible methods in his political struggles, but because he made a mistake in the choice of adversaries against whom he turned these methods. He attacked people with power. ? Noam Chomsky, On Language

Love can really screw you up before you figure out how to live with it. And once you do? You wonder how the hell you ever lived without it

Laying a good foundation is important, but the fact remains that we don't live in the foundation; we live in the house built upon it. In that house where daily life is lived, things are not always as they should be.

What stops you here is what stops your entire life. The air will always be too filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

You realize it's not wooden stakes that kill vampires. It's all the emotional baggage and letdowns they have to carry around for century after century.

Ciò che vi blocca qui dentro è ciò che blocca l'intera vostra vita. L'aria sarà sempre troppo carica di qualcosa. Il vostro corpo sempre troppo indolenzito o stanco. Vostro padre, sempre troppo ubriaco. Vostra moglie sempre troppo fredda. Avrete sempre una qualche scusa per non vivere la vostra vita.

There are the social struggles, and the agonies and embarrassments of puberty... and the weight of the world that falls upon each of us in varying degrees, as we finally relinquish childhood's clouds in glory to live, ever after, in our earthly realm

No one really cares about other people when you get down to it—their own struggles are too close up.

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

las mujeres y la novela son dos problemas que no he resuelto.

The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.

Fins i tot els homes més forts són vulnerables a les ferides de l'esperit.

Perhaps all the difficulties of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering in the early years wouldn't

A Lillian B. Rubin) Los niños le dan la impresión de ser realistas depresivos, que en general no idealizan las luchas de sus padres ni sus formas de sobrevivir, mientras que al mismo tiempo se sienten protectores en relación con ellos por lo normal de su humillación social.

We're all just people...We all have things we deal with, but it's all right. We always muddle through.

Disputes over the crew's composition and pay bedeviled Magellan until the moment of the fleet's departure from Seville.

We can't be happy all the time. If we were we wouldn't be people, we would be game show hosts.

By creating a society in which all people, of all colors, were granted freedom and citizenship, the Haitian Revolution forever transformed the world. It was a central part of the destruction of slavery in the Americas, and therefore a crucial moment in the history of democracy, one that laid the foundation for the continuing struggles for human rights everywhere. In this sense we are all descendents of the Haitain Revolution, and responsible to these ancestors.

I really loathe [the bumper sticker] 'Proud Parent of a Terrific Kid!' Why not a bumper sticker for the unlucky parents, something like: 'My Fifteen-Year-Old's in Detox and Not Speaking to Any of Us' or 'My Kid Robbed a 7-Eleven and is in a Center for Youthful Offenders.

Vivere è come fare una lunga addizione, in cui basta aver sbagliato il totale dei primi due addendi per non uscirne più.

African "homosexualities" can never be comfortably slotted within identity politics carved out of Western "gay" and "lesbian" liberation struggles, and display queer and even post-queer characteristics.

Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life; to all its cares for the present; its anxieties for the future; more than all, its weary recollections of the past!