Quotes About Struggle

It's those that fight hardest for freedom who are never free.

In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.

Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally

You never asked!" So many companies struggle with R&D because technology and marketing folks don't communicate. This was certainly the case at Honeywell. To address the problem, we mandated that technologists and marketers collaborate closely on R&D projects from the very beginning. We also created a company-wide, annual event, our Tech Symposium, that convened hundreds of technologists and marketing executives from around the world to collaborate and network.

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the life of a secondary schoolmaster was as miserable as it has ever been,

If We Quit Trying, It All Goes in the Sh-tter.

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

The secret of successful treatment is not to become a perfect, shining star or to learn to be in complete control of your feelings. These strategies are doomed to failure. In contrast, when you accept yourself as an imperfect but eminently lovable human being, and you stop fighting your emotions so strenuously, your fear will often lose its grip over you.

I went without when I had no money, probably, 'cause of that...

The poet Mary Rose O'Reilly describes the process aptly: "People all over the world are doing very hard things—turning the other cheek, giving all they have to the poor, eating potatoes without salt—because some confused and yawning student took a note.

The tension between what is and what ought to be drives the growls against hypocrisy and the satirization of the self-satisfied and uptight.

They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.

The very existence of Athens, however peaceful, is a deadly threat to Sparta's stasis. And therefore, in the long run, the condition for the continued stasis of Sparta (which means its continued existence, as they see it) is the destruction of progress in Athens (which from our perspective would constitute the destruction of Athens).

Wars between classes might just replace one set of pigs with another, but they had some underlying point to them. Wars between nations, as far as Russell could see, had absolutely none. The

Adventure is somebody else in deep shit, far, far away

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.

Poverty is not primarily about money. It is about having no idea what to do and/or having no one with whom to do it. The former I called imagination and the latter I called community. To the extent that our neighborhood had imagination and community, we were not poor. But without imagination and community, no money could help us. . . . The role of the local church is to be a community of imagination [for the kingdom].12

I struggle with the fact that who I am has often been hidden behind stories that I tell myself derived from my perceptions of others' thoughts, statements, actions, or indifference.

And once again Einar became exhausted by the world failing to know who he was.

the trail, at infrequent posts, the weary Saints would

And wasn't that the inexhaustible struggle for Greta? Her perpetual need to be alone but always loved, and in love.

Yes, but if I were to look down there what would I see?" "Don't think about it like that," Greta said. "That's not the only thing that makes you Lili.

only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.