Quotes About Struggle

This is the tragedy of Hindustan: our disunity. Our enemies have used it against us over and over.

The kings are always fighting," she said. "All they want is more land, more power. They tax the common people to starvation and force them to fight in their armies.

only towards one man can I feel that wrenching whirlwind emotion, soaring to heaven, flung down to hell, both at once.

people look down on a woman without education. She has few options. To survive, she is forced to put up with ill-treatment. She must depend on the kindness of strangers, an unsure thing. I do not want that for you

Things are breaking down inside of her. She waits to see if she can build new, satisfying shapes from them.

When Arjun asked why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies. How

Tilo my daughter," said the Old One, and by her face I knew she felt my struggle in her own heart, "most gifted most troublesome most loved, Tilo traveling to America eager as an arrow, I have here something for you." And from the folds of her clothing she removed it and placed it on my tongue, a slice of gingerroot, wild island ada to give my heart steadfastness, to keep me strong in my vows.

Write our story, too. For always we've been pushed into corners, trivialized, misunderstood, blamed, forgotten—or maligned and used as cautionary tales.

A line from a movie she once saw flits through her mind: Life gets in the way of art.

A line from a movie she once saw flits through her mind: Life gets in the way of art. That pretty much sums up my existence, she thinks.

I've done nothing wrong - nothing except follow my heart. But the world is cruel to women who love.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

But to whom can she say this? Who will listen to her? The power she possessed even a few days ago, as the Sarkar's favourite queen, has faded.

Yes my Lalita, coming at last into your own, I am praying for you. O spices, o all the forces of the world, do not let her give up. Daughter, the birth passage is always narrow, suffocating. But that first free gulp of air filling the lungs, ah. I pray it for you.

I saw that this was how we would live out the next decades, dragging ourselves from one expected action to the next, hoping by meticulous duty to bring each other some small measure of happiness. But the comfort that duty offers is lukewarm at best. Happiness, like a mischievous bird that hops from branch to branch, would continue to elude us.

And whether my lack of friends and visitors was due not to my father's strictness but due to people's wariness of someone who wasn't born like a normal girl and who, if the peophecy was correct, wouldn't live a normal woman's life.

But one thing Krishna said struck me directly. When Arjun asked why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies.

It's hard to tell them apart, what we bring upon ourselves and what destiny determines.

In only a few hours, the ground turned red as though the skies had rained blood. What would happen by the end of the eighteen days?

one time she heard a policeman giving a belting to teenagers who'd been bullying the boy. Part of her wished someone would do that for her son. When Brendan reached high school age he attended Morwell Technical College, a fifteen-

The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

People who are hungry don't have the heart to think about others. Sometimes they can't even care for their own family. Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man. I've seen fathers steal food from their own children's lunchboxes. As they scarf down the corn they have only one overpowering desire: to placate, if even for just one moment, that feeling of insufferable need.

But many have to look on in silence at what distresses them.