Quotes About Struggle

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

My problem is trying to find the desire to fight and be on the court ready to fight. For a few weeks, I haven't felt like I wanted to be on the court. That's the problem.

When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get.

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.

I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.