Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not…

“Maybe he, like me, is engaged in the kind of unspoken rebellion you don't want to perform too brightly since you're never certain anyone…

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

“Our greatest enemy lives within us.”

— Saad Jatoi

It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do…

— Julian Casablancas

Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks…

— Eric Gibbons

I come from a boxing background. Three generations of boxers. I personally hate to fight, but I love the science of boxing. Mind, body.…

— Aleks Paunovic

If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no…

— P.D. Ouspensky

“But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger and hurt…

— Mohsin Hamid

“There is no limit to what you can do,when you focus on your strength.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general, we must…

— A. C. Bradley

“But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt —…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who report histories…

— Marlene Steinberg

“I am fed on despair, and am filled with hopelessness.”

— Anonymous

When you study the lives of all great achievers-those who have had the greatest influence on others, those who have made things happen-you will…

— Stephen Covey

“Difficulties of life are valuable opportunities for self-discovery.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I knew that this moment of weakness would allow me to go on — tomorrow, the day after, and on all the days that…

— Ruslana Pidsadiuk