When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
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The great protagonists are those who fight for their ideas and ideals despite the fact that they receive no recognition at the hands of their contemporaries. They are the men whose memories will be enshrined in the hearts of the future generations. It seems then as if each individual felt it his dut…
For by the word upstart I mean everyone who has raised himself through his own efforts to a social level higher than that to which he formerly belonged. In the case of such a person the hard struggle through which he passes often destroys his normal human sympathy. His own fight for existence kills…
Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature—and sometimes the dividing line is hard to determine—fights less for the negative destruction of the opposing ideology than for the positive promotion of its own. Hence its struggle is less defensive than offensive. It therefore has the adva…
He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
Growing up with an alcoholic father and watching your mother struggle to keep the family together gives you a big insight. I learned ruthless determination early on.
Confession time. What really keeps me up at night. Apathy of the human condition. Abuse of females. Yemen. The Rohingya. Syria. Syrians. Mugabe’s successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa. Torture. Abject cruelty. You?
As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.
The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.
Both taking on a challenge, and creating something, is painful. But it’s fulfilling.
— Naoshi Arakawa, Patrick Seitz, Takao Yoshioka, Kousei Arima, Natsuki Hanae, imdb.com
I just want to say to those struggling, that you need to remember your light. Because if you look back to the times you have struggled before, you will remember that a light came and you know that it will come again.
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.
In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by everyone.
I got this at a very hopeless time in my life. Someone very special gave it to me back in Vietnam. It’s a Buddhist symbol of purpose. I was feeling very lost when I got that. But I put it on and I moved forward. And you know when I was wearing it? The day you were born. The moment you came out, my n…
— Jas Waters, K.J. Steinberg, Jack Pearson, Milo Ventimiglia, imdb.com
"I go out of my way to please you I go out of the way to see you I ain't playing no games, I need you"
Avoidance and attachment - the easiest ways to find pain and struggle.
Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and observe the anniversary with hopes not realized and promises not fulfilled. I plan to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution as a living doc…
Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier…