The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“The struggle is not lost. I believe we have to live, as long as we live, in the expectation and hope of… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water &… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
I know what it feels like to struggle with your weight, and it makes me understand why women get attached to numbers… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled… — Walter Inglis Anderson Copy Share Image
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“Even if you are perfect, the world isn’t. The secret is to know that the deck is stacked, that you will lose,… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick… — Robert J. Waldinger Copy Share Image
The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
But I think writing should be a bit of a struggle. We're not writing things that are going to change the world… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child break forth again when the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“His face was pale, and he dropped to the floor so that he was half kneeling, half sitting before her. "Please. I… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [...] The objective of this battle must… — Franz Halder Copy Share Image
The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
That's something that seems to happen when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
“I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something… — Terrence Malick Copy Share Image
But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Since the struggle for our nation's independence, America has been a union of purpose: a union born from the belief that although… — Alexander Vindman Copy Share Image
Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?-- Better, unto my thinking, doth… — Madison Cawein Copy Share Image
Something seems wrong to most people engaged in struggle when they see more people hurt on their own side than on the… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all… — Gardner Murphy Copy Share Image
I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I know some people are like "I'm depressed and I'm a struggling artist" and that really works for some people, but that… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I looked him in the eye, "I will always love you." Then plunged the stake into his chest. It wasn't as precise… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Heaven Is Whenever - the Christian version of reward, the ultimate reward of heaven. I guess what I'm trying to say is… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of… — Bal Gangadhar Tilak Copy Share Image
“The struggle is really hard sometimes. And then I meet you. And I feel stuff that I’ve never felt before. Things that… — A. Meredith Walters Copy Share Image
But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have been achieved by the new science of nature.The human utopia...a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image