Quotes About Struggle

Ambelsinën, ambelsinën e jetës kërko ta gjesh se e hidhuna e jetës vjen vetë.

Përditë shoh qartë e ma qartë dhe vuej thellë e ma thellë.

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"?

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"?

Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them — when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.

What is required for the salvation of the center and for the creation of a just society is the radical commitment to be in solidarity with those who exist on the margins of society and to accompany them in their daily struggle.

Los ciudadanos que anhelaban el bien de la patria están lejos; unos piden limosna en casa ajena, otros pudren tierra en fosa común.

Curioso ¿por qué?... Después de todo, somos los pobres los más conformes. ¡Y qué remedio, pues!... Verdá es que con eso de la escuela los que han aprendido a ler andan influenciados de cosas imposibles. Hasta mi mujer resulta a veces triste porque dice que quisiera tener alas los domingos.

De cierto que no, y no por su bella gracia, sino porque la mujer es pájaro que no se aviene a vivir sin jaula, y porque pocos serían los leños que traigo a memeches para rompérselos encima —

There's no striving against the stream; and the weakest still goes to the wall.

The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.