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Quotes About Struggle

To create, and to confront, one has to be an outcast.
~ Masha Gessen
The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what had been taken from them, and how.
~ Masha Gessen
life is like a rock it hurts and is harder then you think.
~ Unknown
Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
~ Mason Cooley
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
~ Mason Cooley
At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.
~ Mason Cooley
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
~ Mason Cooley
Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
~ Mason Cooley
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
~ Mason Cooley
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
~ Unknown
Si tienes una fuerte aversión al fracaso, es posible que te sientas desgraciado si no consigues el ascenso, como al tratar de evitar la pobreza o la enfermedad. Pero, si tu deseo va encaminado correctamente a hacer el mejor trabajo posible, no puedes
~ Massimo Pigliucci
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
~ Massimo Vignelli
Since White America refuses to see its past, they can't really see me either. Add to that a little of Madame C.J.s magic and watch me go invisible. Watch me step outside of history. Assimilation as revolution. That's one thing that most of us know that white folks don't. Race doesn't really exist. Culture? Ethnicity? Sure. Class too. But race is just a bunch of rules meant to keep us on the bottom. Race is a strategy. The rest is just people acting playing roles.
~ Mat Johnson
You've got to admit, slick, you got a skill for avoiding the devil." "That just means that now the devils out there, looking for me...and that devil is very mad.
~ Mat Johnson
Okay, here's the secret. It's not really a secret, but I'll frame it to you as one. The same people who despise you for identifying as mixed? Those are the same people who, when you do identify as black, despise you for not being black enough. And there's nothing you can actually do to be black enough, for them. Because it's not really how you act that they despise. It's you. Your very existence." She
~ Mat Johnson
The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters
~ Mathias Malzieu
El problema es que mi cabeza no está nunca despejada. Mi cerebro es una casa de campo para demonios. Vienen a menudo y cada vez son más numerosos. Se preparan aperitivos con el licor de mis angustias. Se sirven de mi estrés porque saben que lo necesito para avanzar. Todo depende de la dosis. Demasiado estrés y mi cuerpo explota. Demasiado poco, y me paralizo. Pero el demonio más violento soy yo mismo.
~ Mathias Malzieu
A veces nos derrumbamos hasta tal punto que incluso la idea de la felicidad nos asusta.
~ Mathias Malzieu
Para prentender ayudar a los demás, antes era necesario salvarse a uno mismo. Y eso seguía estando fuera de mi alcance".
~ Mathias Malzieu
Te pasas el tiempo curando a la gente, pero ahogas tus heridas en el alcohol de tus propias lágrimas.
~ Mathias Malzieu
Las penas amorosas pueden transformar a la gente en monstruos de tristeza.
~ Mathias Malzieu
Je n'aurais jamais cru que ce soit si compliqué de garder à ses côtés la personne que l'on aime de toutes ses forces
~ Mathias Malzieu
No estás obligado a dejar de tener miedo. Lo único que necesitas es aprender a vivir con tus angustias.
~ Mathias Malzieu
Comment on va faire maintenant qu'il fait tout le temps nuit sur toi? Qu'est-ce que ça veut dire la vie sans toi? Qu'est-ce qui se passe pour toi là? Dur Rien? Du vide? De la nuit, des choses de ciel, du réconfort?
~ Mathias Malzieu