Quotes About Struggle

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

For all their bitching about what's holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they're being held from.

Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. The heroes in this book are no different. Everyone struggles. Take solace in that.

Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.

All those artists and writers who bemoan how hard the work is, and oh, how tedious the creative process, and oh, what a tortured genius they are. Don't buy into it. . . . As if difficulty and struggle and torture somehow confer seriousness upon your chosen work. Doing great work simply because you love it, sounds, in our culture, somehow flimsy, and that's a failing of our culture, not of the choice of work that artists make." This

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.

In any situation in life, you only have three options. You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. —CALVIN, from Calvin and Hobbes

It's always the hard part that creates value.

I'm not the strongest. I'm not the fastest. But I'm really good at suffering.

Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren't lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre.

No soy la más fuerte. No soy la más rápida. Pero soy muy buena sufriendo.»

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber.

Y el 99,9 por ciento de las veces no era porque no supieran disparar un arma,

I'm no superhero. I'm not even a consistent "normal.

The War of Art,

The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming.

Life is a full-contact sport, especially on the Internet. If you're going to step into the arena, bloody noses and a lot of scrapes are par for the course.

case—a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious.

Most situations are simple—many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.

You only have the rights you fight for.

SETH: "For me, if you are feeling stuck, it's all about The War of Art and The Art of Possibility. If you are feeling stressed, it's about Pema. If you need to see a path that is more colored than the one you're already on, which is pretty Technicolor, then it's Zig. And if you just want to cry a little, it's Just Kids, and then Debt is the one that is closest to reading a book. I don't think many people should listen to Debt ten times.

Science isn't about being right preemptively or knowing the answer. Science is motivated by the human drive to struggle to discover.

To read Thucydides is to see our own world in microcosm. It's the study of how democracies destroy themselves by breaking down into warring factions, the Few versus the Many. Hoi polloi in Greek means "the many." Oligoi means "the few.