Quotes About Struggle

I would say that one walks hand in hand with fate. Fate pulls in one direction, you pull in the other. You follow fate; fate follows you. And it is not always possible to say who is leading whom.

This is what I discovered during my imprisonment. I saw the human character in its naked form. I saw at one end a narrow rank of villainy, and at the other a narrow rank of virtue. In the middle was everyone else. And I understood that the state of the world is the result of the struggle between these two extremes.

No more free steps to heaven. - It's No Game

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one's emotional plane.

It's a god-awful small affair To the girl with the mousy hair But her mummy is yelling, No! And her daddy has told her to go But her friend is nowhere to be seen Now she walks through her sunken dream To the seat with the clearest view And she's hooked to the silver screen. - Life on Mars?

All the knives seem to lacerate your brain I've had my share I'll help you with the pain - Rock and Roll Suicide

My brain hurt like a warehouse It had no room to spare I had to cram so many things to store everything in there And all the fat-skinny people And all the tall-short people And all the nobody people And all the somebody people I never thought I'd need so many people. - Five Years

Admit that there is some level that would make even you call yourself the victim of class war.

Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

Does the universe hate us? How many pitfalls lie ahead, waiting to shred our conceited molecule-clusters back into unthinking dust? Shall we count them?

Adam Smith saw what had happened to markets and societies for millennia. Winners are never satisfied with success in the latest market battle, with a cool product or financial or political achievement. As humans, we use any recent advantage to ensure that competitors will fail in future struggles.

Living thing, does Entropy, my wicked Aunt, notice our joint conspiracy? Not yet, I think, for you are yet too small. Your puny struggle against her tide is mere fluttering in a great wind. And she thinks I am still her ally.

We have earned our peace. It is, by now, more precious than honor, or even pity.

Trouble is synonymous with being a metabolizing entity.

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

As I sit today, I am a genuine, often pleasant person. I am able to imitate a human being for long spurts of time, do solid work for a reputable organization, and have, over the breadth of time, proven to be an attentive father and husband. So how to reconcile my past with my current circumstances? Drugs, it seems to me, do not conjure demons, they access them. Was I faking it then, or am I faking it now? Which, you might ask, of my two selves did I make up?

So did Katagiri fail, and am I a failure because I can't remember what Buddhism is—and are all the rest of us failures, as it seems, when contrasted against our early pure and simple expectations and the clear-cut enlightenment of the story books?

Depresyondaki bireylerin büyük bir çoÄŸunluÄŸu asl?nda çok sevilen insanlard?r, fakat bu hiç iÅŸe yaramaz; çünkü, kendilerini sevmezler ve kendilerine güvenleri eksiktir. Aslolan, ancak kendinize verdiÄŸiniz deÄŸerin nas?l hissettiÄŸinizi belirlediÄŸidir.

In one sense, depression can feel even worse than cancer, because most cancer patients feel hope as well as self-esteem.

As was Israel, so Jesus is tempted by hunger (Exod 16:1–8), tempted to worship something other than God (Exod 32), and tempted to put God to the test (Exod 17:1–3).

Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it... --Eriond

I've seen hopeless wars won before. If you give in to despair before you begin, you'll have no chance at all.

Democratic Development is a process of political struggle in which democrats work gains the upper hand in the society over non-democrats which directs aid at core political processes and institutions especially elections, political parties and politically oriented civil groups.

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