Quotes About Struggle

Jesse swallowed and looked around the field. Roe could see him struggling with his thoughts, trying to put them in a coherent order. "It takes me a long time to learn things," he told Roe finally. "When I learn 'em, I try to hold on real tight. It's kindy scary for me to try to unlearn 'em.

The meaning of life is life itself. Life fighting to stay alive in a cold, dark universe.

there is a rock bottom that you can hit, even if you are young and beautiful and smart and loved.

We will do anything to get away from our own pain. We will change our lives, rip people out, swallow a bottle of life-ending pills. When we hurt more than we can bear, when our lives get that dark, it's shocking what we will do to protect ourselves.

freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

The things is," she said at last, " sometimes people can come back and still be lost.

Farmecul, pitorescul, partea interesant? a vieÈ›ii unui om cu temperament puternic, zbuciumat È™i, în acelaÈ™i timp, aventuros nu st? totdeauna în faptele izbitoare ale acestei vieÈ›i. FrumuseÈ›ea trebuie s-o cauÈ›i - de cele mai multe ori - în am?nunte.

Femeile pl?teau pentru toat? lumea: pentru b?rbat, pentru Dumnezeu, pentru lege, pentru boier, pentru lipsa de nutre? ?i chiar ?i pentru vremea rea.

Angel sinirlenerek sordu : - Mahvolmaktan ne kastediyorsun? - Kaderi olan hayattan ba?ka bir hayat? kendine zorlayan adama mahvolmu? diyorum. Angel ba??n? sallad? : -Mahvolmu? adam buna m? derler? Ya kaderi olan hayattan ba?ka bir hayat? kendine zorlamayan adama ne dersin?

Bilhassa bilmiyordum ki, hilkatin yaratt??? eserler nihayetsiz derecede çapra??k ve çeÅŸitlidir, çektiÄŸimiz bin türlü çileler bütün insanl???n yüzüne tükürmek hakk?n? bize vermez. Günahkar bir insanl??a k?z?nca, Nuh'la ailesini kurtararak neslini tüketmeden cezaland?rmak suretiyle bizzat Allah da bunu anlatm??t?.

ÎnvinÈ™i sunt toÈ›i oamenii care se g?sesc la sfârÈ™itul, sau spre sfârÈ™itul vieÈ›ii lor în dezacord sentimental cu cei mai buni dintre semenii lor.

Joséphine avait peur, si peur. Elle aurait pu indiquer précisément où elle avait peur, mesurer la longueur, l'épaisseur, le diamètre de la barre qui lui écrasait le plexus et l'empêchait de respirer.

To accept the conventions of traditional society is to be less than an individual. To reject them is yo assume an intolerable burden of freedom in often fundamentally discouraging conditions.

Suicide and depression rates, to take one revealing statistic, have shot up in countries with the fastest-growing economies. So has the number of young suicide bombers attempting their own version of podvig.

It was easy to denounce that American vision of endless space and well-being and leisure as a deception; to accuse it of obscuring the inner cities and drugs and violence, and the ruthless suppression of remote and near enemies. But to people from tormented societies, America was the country whose nation-building traumas seemed to lie in the remote past, and where many individuals could afford to look beyond the struggles for food, shelter and security that still weighed upon people elsewhere.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

The creative hopeless.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.

Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented satisfaction. But the worst temptations are those we give in to without getting anything in return except for the brutal discovery of our weakness.

One characteristic apparently common to all chess players is a refusal to admit that their position in a lost game was truly indefensible.

And just as a single victory can redeem many a defeat, so a single defeat can devalue or even eradicate a long string of successes.

I repeat the names of the cardinal points in Russian: sever, north, desolate asperity of the Gulag; yug, south, a funnel that sucks you down toward the bottom; vostok, east, like the launch of a catapult; and zapad, west, the sound of falling head over heels.

L'alterco si spegne, i due si guardano, poi scoppiano a ridere. Uno dice: "Egyna Tourkos", mi sono infuriato come un turco. L'altro: "Scusa, mi sono comportato come un Vlaho", un montanaro. Ecco, la Grecia è anche questo. Eraclito che scrive: "Da ciò che è in lotta nasce la più bella armonia. Tutto si realizza attraverso la discordia".