Life Struggle Quotes - Page 5

• Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Struggle, Awards, Long

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• I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.

  Lucas Neff

  Country, Struggle, Epic

  "Raising Hope's Lucas Neff on starting stand-up and how his show apes The Simpsons". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2013.

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• Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Strong, Struggle, Butterfly

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• Many flatter themselves and consider themselves to be good, humble, and meek, but they will discover the contrary under temptation. Do not not become despondent in temptations, then, but give all the more thanks to God that He thus brings you to what is hidden in your heart - the knowledge of yourself - and wishes you to be corrected and be saved.

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Heart, Humble, Giving

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• The nobility which exists within any cause is to be found not in any achievement, but instead within the struggle.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Struggle, Achievement

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• I thank the Lord that I may have passed some of the tests, but maybe there will have to be more before I shall have been polished to do all that the Lord would have me do. Sometimes when the veil has been very thin, I have thought that if the struggle had been still greater that maybe then there would have been no veil.

  Harold B. Lee

  Struggle, Veils, May

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• I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

  Georg Baselitz

  Struggle, Fighting, Ideas

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• Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted in being foolish. I find enjoyment in the powerful and terrible struggles of life; and the capability of experiencing something, of learning something, gives me pleasure.

  August Strindberg

  Powerful, Struggle, People

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• Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.

  Apolo Ohno

  Struggle, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show him that he must not fear pain, temptation or death - because all three can be conquered, all three have already been conquered. Christ suffered pain, and since then pain has been sanctified. Temptation fought until the very last moment to lead him astray, and Temptation was defeated. Christ died on the Cross, and at that instant death was vanquished forever.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Pain, Fear, Book

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Struggle, Men, Literature

  Henrik Ibsen (1896). “Brand: a dramatic poem”

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• OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Struggle, Wicked, Oblivion

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

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• I wish more people knew Steve Howe the way I knew him. His struggles in life were well documented, but he always tried to fight through them and I will always respect that. My thoughts and prayers go out wife Cindy and his family.

  Brian Cashman

  Prayer, Struggle, Fighting

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• Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Stress, Struggle

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.14, Rodale

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• My dad would tell me to, 'Play for those who couldn't play.' So my motivation is for people who struggle in life daily.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Motivation, Dad, Struggle

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• Shall any of us repine that it is our lot to live in perilous and sacrificial days? Rather I say we are glad that we live in this time of mortal struggle and are doing our share to put to flight the powers of darkness. Our children and grandchildren will be proud that this country saved freedom for itself by helping to preserve it for the world.

  Thomas W. Lamont

  Country, Children, Freedom

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• Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Strength, Struggle, Victory

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• You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.

  Phillips Brooks

  Strength, Strong, Struggle

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• Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Struggle, Commitment

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• You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Life, Giving Up, Struggle

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• At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we “don’t know” what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn’t. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.

  Deb Caletti

  Art, Lying, Struggle

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• I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Struggle, Giving

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• The perpetual struggle for room and food.

  Thomas Malthus

  Struggle, Cooking, Emigration

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.59, Penguin UK

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• To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

  Ben Jonson

  Life, Dream, Struggle

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• The spiritual life is indeed a life of struggle; but it is also a life of well grounded hope. Hope is grounded in freedom, and freedom is grounded in all the high purposes and powers of spirit, human and divine. The last word of spirit is Victory.

  Edgar S. Brightman

  Life, Spiritual, Struggle

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