Quotes About Struggle

Cilv?ks ir rad?ts, lai nestu savu krustu, t?p?c vi?am doti stipri pleci. Var iztur?t bezgala daudz, ja nav zaud?jis cilv?ku sev?.

They tell you in this country that you have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. And we all believe that. But first you've got to have the boots. And the federal government gave Franni's family the boots.

The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

Your organs are all failing, but your cancer...well, your cancer is doing great.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

short, I could do the work, but no one liked me.

Funny how that works. Whether everything goes right or nothing goes your way, booze always seems like a good idea.

If only it were so easy. Real-world bad dreams are much worse.

Like every part of his life was about cultivating an identity. He couldn't just be normal.

There's no such thing as merit separated from biography, he had told me. The only question is whether you're going to let your biography hold you down or help you up.

Whether everything goes right or nothing goes your way, booze always seems like a good idea.

Las personas que consiguen lo que no merecen sufren terribles desgracias."- Las amapolas del emperador.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Mieux vaut un désastre qu'un désêtre.

It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in that which exceeds you perseverance. Persevere in the interruption. Seize in your being that which has seized and broken you.

To love is to struggle, beyond solitude, with everything in the world that can animate existence. This world where I see for myself the fount of happiness my being with someone else brings. "I love you" becomes: in this world where there is the fount you are for my life. In the water from this fount, I see our bliss, yours first.

It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

I felt condemned to obscurity and to celibacy. But when one is driven by passion, one can live on almost nothing, and I was driven by passion for writing. One does not starve in modern, Western societies, and one can do without such amenities as the telephone, a car, entertainment.