Quotes About Struggle

As so often in history, equality for some can only be achieved by discriminating against all the rest.

However much some people may resent the fact, in nature inequality and not equality seems to be the rule.

Men's lot in life is endless hard work whose fruits will be consumed largely by others. The more men bring in, the greater the demands. Should men fail, they may lose both what they made and those to whom they gave it. Perhaps the most terrifying thing about Melville's story is that, at times, Bartleby's behavior and fate can tempt even the most active and successful man.

When the ego does not seem to live up to the beliefs, ideas, and judgments that are imposed from its context, internal conflict arises, and this creates a new layer of masking and character formation

then I'd worry that my coffee would be muddy and my croissants burnt and he'd only give me the baguettes with the misshaped ends. Life wouldn't be worth living.

and the old farm, now almost overwhelmed

Man geht auf ein Loch zu, weiß, dass man hineinfallen wird, und fällt hinein.

Auf jeden Fall werde ich, oder wenigstens will ich, wenn nicht, dann doch, allerdings müsste ich, und kann nicht.

For 56 days they had given everything, endured everything; they had achieved the impossible, not once but again and again. They deserved to win; and if they were now being robbed of victory, then the real thieves weren't the People's Army, the 'rats of the Nam Youm', or anyone else in the filth of this last valley, but men who slept between clean sheets far away.

It is one of the central human tragedies that war is not an aberration-it is what human beings do.

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Anna Karenina A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. François Rabelais, 1494-1553

The dole was supposed to tide you over till you got a fucking job. It was never meant to be your fucking main earn.

It was a bastard, life. It had the knack of throwing you a curve every now and then to keep you interested. To give you a reason to keep going. Then, just as you thought you had cracked it, you took delivery of a blow that was so severe you were amazed at how you could ever have survived it. But somehow you did, and somehow you carried on.

job!' This son of hers was caught up in the middle, as usual. It was the bane of the middle child's life. Caught between the first-born and the last-born, they were often left to their own devices.

Life is like a shit sandwich. The more bread you've got, the less shit you have to eat.

Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light Paradise Lost (1667) John Milton, 1608–74 For the love of money is the root of all evil 1 Timothy 6:10

It's what you do. Just keep trying, day by day, to sort everything out.

struggling. Eventually, after about five minutes,

In trouble to be troubled is to have your trouble doubled.' – The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe, c. 1659-1661

people who feel she ain't

All his support seemed to have achieved was to allow his wife to become more and more reclusive. He

He had no intention of fighting for a country that he saw as holding men down and offering them nothing except back-breaking work. He had said as much to his commanding officer. He had also robbed the army stores blind; the black market was still thriving at the time, and he had used that for his own ends.

Now, as a wage earner, she had gained a certain grudging respect, but it had been a long time coming. At fifteen, she understood her life better than people three times her age; she needed to keep the peace until she had enough money to set up on her own, or marry herself out of it all.

walked from it he hawked deep in his throat before