Quotes About Struggle

There is nothing more dangerous than a desperate man who has nothing to loose.

Everything has become too easy for our young people, and we make things worse by lying to them. We don't help them face reality. Teachers and schools lie to children and parents all the time.

Die Armut erstickt unsere Träume, noch bevor sie zu Ende geträumt sind.

It's very hard to make money. I think people don't get that message.

The natural world is a world of war; the natural man is a warrior; the natural law is tooth and claw. All else is error. A condition of combat everywhere exists. We are born into perpetual conflict. It is our inheritance, even as it was the heritage of previous generations.

For strife and struggle Man is born; But sheep and lambs Are always shorn.

Life is strife for every man, for every son of thunder; Then be a lion not a lamb, and don't be trampled under.

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep up with gravity.

The life circle, no different than for us. Sometimes it's brutal and intense, but without it there would be no life.

Works of art are indeed always products of having been in danger, of having gone to the very end in an experience, to where man can go no further.

In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.

I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

The Empire seemed to be giving a veto on India's political advance to Jinnah, the princes and Ambedkar.

the British would not permit a government 'whose authority is directly denied by large and powerful elements in India's national life

In the new situation created by Hitler's war, Linlithgow was more successful at dividing Indians than Gandhi was in uniting them.

About ten to twelve million people were forced to leave their homes and cross the new border.102

India, Nicholson would say, was 'like a rat-trap, easier to get into than out of