Quotes About Struggle

Hall shook his head. "Humanity," he said sadly. "Sometimes it's really hard to be a fan.

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you. Wortzman

Smith in frustration. "If all she wanted was muscle, she could

Struggle, purpose, accomplishment, and challenge are what truly brings meaning to existence.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are." ?—Arthur Golden

The lesson of evolution is that struggle and competition are the only sculptors that can ensure a species reaches its highest potential. Only a struggle for the ultimate stakes can bring out the best on all sides, as each side is forced to adapt and improve in response to the other, in a constant escalation of potential.

I've taken such a giant step onto that slope that I've slid straight down to the cesspool at its bottom.

His foot was heavy on the gas pedal by nature, and when he didn't actively control himself, his default speed was usually twenty miles per hour over the posted limit. Despite conscious efforts to contain this impulse, he was beginning to feel he was beyond hope and desperately in need of a twelve-step speedaholics program.

He had read a description of the life of a novelist, and decided his life wasn't too far different. Writing is easy, Gene Fowler had famously observed. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Nick, no matter what, we'll find a way to cure you of your

And there can be no triumph without the possibility of defeat.

the ocean continued to slam angrily into the cliff wall far below as if raging against the audacity of our barbaric species.

We had been trying for a hint of amusement, but were failing miserably. Apparently, dread wasn't an easy emotion to displace

We're our own worst enemy.

Bobbie Fischer was considered the greatest chess player who ever lived, and he ended up losing complete touch with reality. John Nash, a brilliant mathematician who developed game theory, was debilitated by paranoid schizophrenia. There are

I had taken German in high school, and I was truly horrible at it.

PART 8 "Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you." —Friedrich Nietzsche,

Sometimes I think of myself as Frodo in the Lord of The Rings. In my case the ring's power is that of almost inconceivable creativity and intellect.

from Booker T. Washington himself: "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

survival of the fittest"—which was first coined by the economist Herbert Spencer

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

Keep in mind that getting control of any addictive-type problem nearly always requires multiple efforts. If at first you don't fully succeed, keep trying and keep learning; remember, most cigarette smokers finally quit on the eighth serious attempt.

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