Quotes About Struggle

Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.

Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.

Being a warrior doesn't mean necessarily you need to win and succeed. It's just a spiritual condition of living a worthwhile life.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned.

No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf.

Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration.

Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.

The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.

The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.

Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?

Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.

In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.

In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.