Quotes About Struggle

When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do it's a hollow victory. In order to sustain the victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out.

there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed.

A small nation's fight for freedom from tyranny and a deadly foe Robert Reid – White Light Red Fire

To be fated to lose. To know destiny itself the architect of my torment. Can it be true? Is to be Loki to be without hope? And if so...to whom can a god appeal for mercy?

Maybe mountaineering shouldn't be considered heroic at all, since the whole effort is 'useless' and in no way to be compared with sitting down at the wrong lunch counter in the early-sixties South, or going into battle. Nevertheless, situations arise in the useless enterprise of mountaineering that present people with choices, that make emotional and physical demands that few can meet.

According to the article, Douglass responds, "No, no, … I am Marshal Douglass in Washington; here let me be Fred Douglass again."41 Was Douglass in some odd way asking to be a slave again or to be treated as a kind of boy, as some of his critics at the time suggested?

The man who can fight to heaven's own height is the man who can fight when he's losing.

It wallowed in its water-bed; it burrowed, heaved and swung; It gnawed its way ahead with grunts and sighs; Its bill of fare was rock and sand; the tailings were its dung; It glared around with fierce electric eyes. Full fifty buckets crammed its maw; it bellowed out for more; It looked like some great monster in the gloom.

In boxing there are rules. You wear padded gloves. It's always a one-on-one fight. You can't hit below the belt or use a weapon. I may get beat, but at least I'll always have a fair chance of winning. The rest of the world isn't always like that.

The world is going crazy, Karl. And hen the world is crazy, a sane man is never okay.

Joey, no situation is entirely unworkable. People have gone through worse bad-rapping than that, and come up smelling like roses. The Shaggy Average American Man Story

As youngest boy in service, the worst jobs fell to him, and this would

Where's the room for free will in this mechanical universe of yours, Charles?" "There isn't any. That's why I say the universe stinks." "We have no freedom at all?" "The freedom to wriggle a little on the hook.

I tried to be good to Judith, I tried to be kind and loving, but our hatred kept coming between us.

We are fighting that force in the universe that nudges everything toward chaos. I mean that we are at war with time; we are enemies of entropy; we seek to snatch back those things that have been taken from us by the years—the childhood toys, the friends and relatives who are gone, the events of the past—everything, we struggle to recapture everything, back to the beginning of creation, out of this need not to let anything slip away.

You see the difficulty of believing in a divine force that determines all events? Where is the element of choice that makes suffering meaningful? To force you into a sin, and then to require you to endure defeat as atonement, seems to me an empty exercise.

Modern developments have eased the intensity of the ancient struggle between creditors and debtors. Stock markets and limited liability have provided an alternative to bank borrowing for raising capital, and the penalties for default have been progressively relaxed. We no longer demand labour services of defaulting debtors, or send them to prison. Debt-bondage is a shadow of its old self.

Life is sometimes tough when you do not fit the standard profile.

Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around.

Financial struggle is often directly the result of people working all their lives for someone else.

Most addictions are attempts to find happiness in people's souls. This

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary. Poor is eternal." My

He also despised the school system, although he thrived in it. He became a teacher because he also dreamed of changing the system, but instead the system crushed him. He took his passion, tried to change the system, and ran into a brick wall. It was a system that too many people were making money in, and no one wanted it changed, although there was a lot of talk about the need for change.

Without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.