Quotes About Struggle

Hellacious has a whole new meaning here.

It's the grass, the tall smothering stiff grass. It always wins. Knock it down, it comes back. Burn it, it comes back. The grass is forever.

The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

The bottom line was that he didn't want to die. As far as he was concerned, death was the problem. The basic human problem. Everyone's problem. He wasn't any different from anyone else, but there was no consolation in that.

The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred. The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably.

Where are we likely to encounter the most resistance? •

Struggle a little bit! At first, it'll be difficult—or awkward—struggling on purpose. But every technique created by Sandler Training requires practice—reinforcement training—to accomplish it.

In American history, racism has not been a constant but a variable which came, went and came again.

The same cultural values which caused secession were also partly responsible for its eventual defeat.

To a modern mind, hegemonic liberty is an idea at war with itself.

The history of the early abolitionist movement," writes historian Arthur Zilversmit, "is essentially the record of Quaker antislavery activities.

You make love like a wounded panther. You are like a paintshop on fire.

We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselves. The fight. The struggle. The historic destiny. The return of the people. The cause: life therefore having a meaning and shape that eludes the rest of us in the endless wash of 'What the hell are we doing here?' In a single day, says an Israeli friend, he experiences events and emotions that would keep a Swede going for a year.

America is a crippled giant, England is a sick gnome.

We can't, it seems, live without [capitalism] even as we complain about it.

Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.

This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.

As if I were any man's idea! As if I exist because a man has an idea of me! As if I will be betrayed by him, lend him my body as an instrument for his idea, to be a mere apparatus of his dead theory. But they are too fussy to be able to act; they are all impotent, they can't take a woman. They come to their own idea every time, and take that. They are like serpents trying to swallow themselves because they are hungry.

I thought I'd done with it all. Now I've begun again. Begun what? Life. Life! she re-echoed, with a queer thrill. It's life, he said. There's no keeping clear. And if you do keep clear, you might almost as well die. So if I've got to be broken open again, I have--.

But he would protect her with his heart for a little while. For a little while, before the insentient iron world and the Mammon of mechanised greed did them both in, her as well as him.

Tenemos que seguir viviendo, a pesar de todos los cielos desplomados.

She couldn't quite, quite love in hopelessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever quite love at all

When your main objective is to be a good kid, Catholicism makes everything extremely complicated