Quotes by Struggle The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison pain struggle evil I guess it was easier for me to find my voice in poetry than it was in fiction. I'm working on fiction again, and I find it a lot more difficult. It's a struggle. At a certain point, you have your voice and you go to it every time, so it's not like reinventing the wheel. That's the way I see it at least. Barbara Hamby difficult struggle The culture of suppressing women composers and performers goes centuries back in Germany and other countries. Just think of Fanny Mendelssohn and the struggles she and many other women had to endure to get their music recognized. How many women's compositions were left to languish in attics, only to be thrown out by future generations! So much has been lost over the centuries. Barbara Harbach struggle country thinking It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life. Barbara Kingsolver struggle wise love I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it. Barbara Kingsolver struggle writing book Whatever we are going through is part of the planetary struggle to evolve. Barbara Marx Hubbard evolve evolution struggle In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to give meaning and purpose to the struggle that is life on Earth, to explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design. Barbara Tuchman struggle giving men Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle. Barry Humphries thick struggle years For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles. Barry Lopez struggle motivational inspirational The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing. Baruch Spinoza giving-up real struggle Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil. Basil Hume suffering struggle evil I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly. Bassem Youssef events struggle people If I were doing five cop shows, I'd probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations. Bear McCreary inspiration identity struggle We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians. Beau Willimon our-love love-life struggle Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends. Bela Karolyi powerful struggle challenges My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is a vocation rooted in hopefulness. As teachers we believe that learning is possible, that nothing can keep an open mind from seeking after knowledge and finding a way to know. Bell Hooks struggle teacher believe Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. Bell Hooks despair political struggle If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundamentally informs my life, which is that I’m a seeker on the path. I think of feminism, and I think of anti-racist struggles as part of it. But where I stand spiritually is, steadfastly, on a path about love. Bell Hooks race struggle thinking Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class of women. It does not privilege women over men. It has the power to transform meaningfully all our lives Bell Hooks race struggle men Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels. Bell Hooks western-culture feminism struggle «2122232425262728293031»
