Struggle Quotes - page 13

Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings. (Reza Aslan)
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. View quote
Robert H. Schuller
Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough. View quote
Charlaine Harris
Don't struggle about the struggle. In other words, life's full of ups and downs. So if you're struggling, don't worry, everyone else has or will at some point. View quote
Sean Covey
Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment. View quote
Isaac Marion
The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for. View quote
Deb Caletti
In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled. View quote
James Surowiecki
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. View quote
George Saunders
For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together. (Eve Ensler)
Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness. View quote
Amy Cuddy
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. View quote
Elizabeth Blackwell
The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin. View quote
Caroline Knapp
As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were betraying the class struggle. There are many poignant writings in which feminists first write pages about their class standpoint before getting to their actual issue. What was then known as class warfare is today called anti-racism. The threat of being accused of racism gave birth to false tolerance. View quote
Alice Schwarzer
I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life. View quote
Christina Ricci
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good. View quote
L. Sprague de Camp
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for. View quote
Loretta Young
We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
The best ally in the struggle against violent Islamism is moderate Islam. View quote
Lawrence Wright
God doesn't tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end. (Joyce Meyer)
Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort. View quote
Joyce Meyer
To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them. View quote
Idries Shah
Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect. View quote
George Weinberg
Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community. View quote
John O. Brennan