Being a woman did not look enviable to me, even when it looked admirable. It looked like nonstop sacrifice and service. Because… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Any racism or barriers that may be put up, you get a tremendous sense of resistance. The more you push me, the… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil.… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously -… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Without making mistakes we would've never learned how to better ourselves. By making mistakes it gives us an opportunity to do and… — Surgeo Bell Copy Share Image
Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In our culture, many of us idealize love. We see it as some lofty cure-all for all of life's problems. Our movies… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Most of my experiences have been positive. I know I live a very good life. I'm severely overpaid, but there are people… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
Each time we arrive at a new level in extricating ourselves from economic, social, spiritual domination, we have a moment when we… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Once I was in New York, I completely had no interest for a long time in what happened in China because I… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We have health insurance companies playing a major role in the provision of healthcare, both to the employed whose employers provide health… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Warriors fear surrender. They are proud and defiant. They will fight to the death for what they believe in. They will struggle… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confinement, long legal battles, and physically… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
“The raw elements of gold and silver are refined and purified by intense heat. The same is true for you and me.… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in persevering… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
“All life is struggle, says the Sufi, but the struggle must be a coherent one. The average man is struggling against too… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I've been on shows that are very comedic and happy, and you really only get to see one side of my personality.… — Chanel West Coast Copy Share Image
All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of… — Ulrike Meinhof Copy Share Image
I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling. What we know is we can improve. Chad Pennington, our… — Joe Namath Copy Share Image