Quotes About Struggle

Conservatives and Progressives. These two parties, which divide our government—and every other government—have been fighting for control of the world from the very beginning. History is the chronicle of their battles: between nobles and commoners, rulers and rebels, old traditions and new ideas, the rich and the poor. As the world turns, one side gets the upper hand, then the other, and back again. Only the names change.

We want a ship in these billows we inhabit.

But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Man runs about restless and in pain when his condition or the objects about him do not fully match his thought.

the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall."—Vivekananda

We end up going through hell in meditation to quiet our mind, not because somebody says, "You ought to quiet your mind," but because our agitated mind is driving us up the wall, and it's keeping us from getting on with it.

I started to get extremely, extremely depressed. I'm sure part of it was due to the hashish.

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter

affluence has bought us privacy, and the apparent power to guard it against the encroachments of other people's adversity.

In India, the sapling was planted by the nation's founders, who lived long enough (and worked hard enough) to nurture it to adulthood. Those who came afterwards could disturb and degrade the tree of democracy but, try as they might, could not uproot or destroy it.

in the post-Gandhian war for power the first casualty is decency'.

It is not that mother Kaikeyi is evil, or that she hates me; only that destiny uses her, even against her own nature.

If your faith is based on lack of affliction, it's on the brink of extinction and is only a frightening diagnosis or a shattering phone call away from collapse. Token faith will not survive suffering. Nor should it.

Do we seek happiness because we're sinners or because we're human? Should faith in God be dragged forward by duty or propelled by delight? Must we choose between holiness and happiness?

When hard times come, people should lose their faith in false doctrine, not in God.

Reality's such a pain sometimes, you know?

I'm not always happy, any more than I'm always holy. But by God's grace, I'm happier in Christ now than I've ever been.

The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign

When you once had faith and no longer do, I suppose it's like a woman carrying a dead baby. The sight of live babies becomes painful.

Do we seek happiness because we're sinners or because we're human? Should faith in God be dragged forward by duty or propelled by delight? Must we choose between holiness and happiness? Much

The lustful man walks with a noose around his neck.