Quotes About Struggle

The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

Failure is the price of excellence.

As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

Human tragedies:We all want to be extraordinaryand we all just want to fit in.Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.

We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.