Quotes About Struggle

she couldn't decide which was worse: pending alcoholism, or remorseless unrelenting sobriety of the rest of her days.

Prison would kill him. Not neatly or cleanly or quickly, It would kill him with ten thousand days of gray, each taking a bite of his sanity until all that remained was huddled terror with the body of a man wrapped around it.

To attempt to change circumstances before I change my own imaginal activity is to struggle against the very nature of my own being, for my own imaginal activity is animating my world.

Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor.

Duality is an inherent condition of life. Everything that exists is double. Man is a dual creature with contrary principles embedded in his nature. They war within him and present attitudes to life which are antagonistic. This conflict is the eternal enterprise, the war in heaven, the never-ending struggle of the younger or inner man of imagination to assert His supremacy over the elder or outer man of sense.

The quality of denial—when disciplined—protects man from receiving impressions that are not in harmony with his nature. He adopts an attitude of total indifference to all suggestions that are foreign to that which he desires to express. Disciplined denial is not a fight or struggle but total indifference.

Man fails to do the works of Jesus Christ because he attempts to accomplish them from his present level of consciousness. You will never transcend your present accomplishments through sacrifice and struggle. Your present level of consciousness will only be transcended as you drop the present state and rise to a higher level.

Intentar cambiar el mundo antes de cambiar nuestro concepto de nosotros mismos es luchar contra la naturaleza de las cosas.

I just want you all to know," quipped a platinum blond with obvious glee, "that sometimes being homosexual is a big pain in the ass.

LGBT history is written, like most history, by the victors, those with the means and those with connections to power.

And they don't know anything else They don't know they're breathing bad air. But I'm tired of living like this And my soul cries out, 'If You're there..

Shutting his laptop screen, he said, "Two of our fellow fighters have achieved martyrdom.

I am drowning: what use would be looking back to the shore from which I fell?

Atahmâ he Mara reih a hrana a tlô hai. A nypazy cha amâ duah papua lymâ aw.

Eima yna su vaih nata khih liata Mara reih pabohsa tuhpa ma na châ ma, a pahlei tuhpa ma? Keimo duasu tawh chyu ta he thliena he eima hmâh thei aw.

Mara reih he lei aw vei. Khazohpa eima theina hawhta chakao hai pi ta, missionary eima theina zydua ta chyh hai pi ta, MWC ta a theina hawhta Mara reih hmahpasiesa awpa ta ahria hai.

Hay una gran belleza en el hombre vestido de percal y calzado con sandalias, sin más armas que un bastón para andar y su credo de la no violencia, que se enfrenta al poderoso imperio británico, ¿no

I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not.

Conceptio culpa Nasci pena Labor vita Necesse mori 'Conception is sin, birth is pain, life is toil, death is inevitable.

We all have to find a story to live by and live inside, or we couldn't endure the certainty of suffering.

Your love is doomed, you must give it everything you've got.

When you've been raised inside a religion, it's not a small thing to step outside it. Even if you no longer believe in it, you can feel its absence. There's a spirit-would to a Sunday. You can patch it, but it's there, whether natural or invented not for me to say.

Her mind was like a bookcase whose shelves had been pulled away, leaving the books pell-mell. All the stories of her life were in there, only confounded one into the other.

Most of the time you don't estimate the good or the bad you do and you have to operate on a small and labouring engine of hope with a blind windscreen and pray you're going in a direction