Struggle Quotes - Page 7

• Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

  Jimmy Carter

  Better Life, Should, Democrat

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• We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves from our mother's womb. All struggle & misery in life is due to our attempt to arrest this law or get away from it or in allowing ourselves to be hurt by it. The fact must be recognized. A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. All else is false. The law of life. No sense in battling against it.

  R.K. Narayan

  Mother, Hurt, Loneliness

  R. K. Narayan (2000). “Memories of Malgudi”, p.274, Penguin Books India

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• The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Political, Police, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.

  Antonin Artaud

  Night, People, Magic

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.486, Univ of California Press

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• I'm a lover not a fighter.

  Michael Jackson

  Love, Romantic, Basketball

  Song: The Girl Is Mine W Paul Mccartney, Album: Thriller, 1982

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• In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Truth, Games, Effort

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• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• I've found, however, that real change only comes when we let go of the struggle, when we stop trying, and that the greatest key to healing our vision is also the simplest one: expanding our awareness.

  Jacob Liberman

  Letting Go, Real, Healing

  Jacob Liberman (2011). “Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight”, p.97, Harmony

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• The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Rain, Acceptance

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1906). “Longfellow Day by Day”

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• When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

  Owen Jones

  Art, Succeed, Failing

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• They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing we know getting along the birth canal, out in the world. It's pretty basic. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you'd go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone.

  Tom Waits

  Book, Discovery, Gone

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• The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Law, Liberty, Aim

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, 1960.

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• In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.

  Clement Attlee

  War, Destiny, Hands

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• Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

  Honore de Balzac

  Pride, Men, Shows

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• Heaven Is Whenever - the Christian version of reward, the ultimate reward of heaven. I guess what I'm trying to say is this is happening every day. We're blessed always. There is struggle and there is suffering in our lives, but understanding that is part of our lives - a part that just is. Suffering is a part of the joy of life.

  Craig Finn

  Christian, Blessed, Joy

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• Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the law of grace. In our effort to combat legalism we land ourselves in the worst kind of legalism. The only way of overcoming this legalism is by real obedience to Christ when he calls us to follow him; for in Jesus the law is at once fulfilled and cancelled.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Real, Simple

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Many activists don't want to hear about some grand narrative, one that could unify all of our struggles. So the major issue that needs to be addressed is how to get people to see that there is indeed a grand narrative which just happens to be true.

  Michael Yates

  Issues, People, Needs

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• After the Second World War, facilitating the establishment of the UN and aiding the reconstruction of Europe, the United States was widely viewed, at least in the West, as a benevolent hegemon. In the non-West, the US was often perceived as a supporter of the colonial powers in their struggle to maintain control over their colonial possessions, and was viewed far more critically, especially by emerging elites that were more inclined to socialist development paradigms than to the capitalist ethos favoured by Washington.

  Richard A. Falk

  War, Ethos, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.

  C.E. Morgan

  Ambition, Boredom, Ego

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Jobs, Government, Cost

  "State AGs Urge Federal Forgiveness Of Student Loans Tied To Dodgy For-Profit Chain" By Shahien Nasiripour, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2015.

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• It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Soldier, Battle

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.163, David M Gross

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• Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

  Horace

  Retirement, Limits, Ends

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, Satire I, transl. by N. Rudd, v. 92-94, 2005.

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• [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, Self, Joy

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• It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.

  Herbert Hoover

  Science, Men, Presidential

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• I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mom, Mother, Prayer

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