Jonathan Franzen Quotes About Struggle

Quotes about: Struggle

• Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Spiritual, Real, Struggle

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.9, Macmillan

• [T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Love, Struggle, Self

• When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Struggle, Writing, Mean

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