Quotes About Struggle

Nesre?a nesre?nih ljudi i jeste u tome što za njih stvari koje su ina?e zabranjene postanu, za trenutak dostižne i lake, ili bar tako izgledaju, a kada se jednom trajno usele u njihove želje, one se pokažu opet kao ono što jesu: nedostupne i zabranjene, sa svim posledicama koje to ima po one koji za njima ipak posegnu.

To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

W szale?stwach szlachetnej pasji wi?cej jest sprawiedliwo?ci i nadziei ni? w ponurych rygorach tego ?wiata.

But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.

The way I must enter leads through darkness to darkness- O moon above the mountain's rim, please shine a little further on my path,

A turtle with no legs tends not to go anywhere.

You can only flap your arms so much before gravity catches up to you.

C. S. Lewis once wrote that man has two clues to the meaning of the universe. One is the knowledge of a law that he did not make but is obligated to keep; the other is the knowledge that he does not and cannot keep it.

The question about the end bursts out of the torment of history and the intolerableness of historical existence.

Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty.

The Dearborn was typical of the schools in Boston's predominantly black neighborhoods, and the more Rachel saw of them, the more she despaired of her children's ever getting a decent education there. They were hardly schools at all, she thought, more like warehouses where the kids were stored for a few years, sorted, labeled, and packed for shipment to the menial, low-paying jobs at which they would be doomed to labor the rest of their lives.

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

Hoe voel je je?' 'Als een schip,' zeg ik, 'een schip, een zeilschip dat in een windstilte is terechtgekomen. En dan plotseling is er even weer wat wind vaar ik weer. Dan heeft de wereld weer vat op me en kan ik weer meebewegen.

Een mens is te klein voor dit leven.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

Sometimes it's a struggle to get over self-love first. Sometimes in this struggle for love, we give up, or lose everything, and we still don't achieve love. Some people don't even recognize real love when it comes without being called or sought.

Now, I ain't quite learned bout who makes all the big rules in life, but life sure can be mean and hard sometime.