The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can’t expect that you’re going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.
But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as instruments of divine sovereignty.
That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.
God hears and He sees, and you are not alone in your struggles. Remain firm and stable, for God has your deliverance planned.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life – it’s possible.
By any means necessary.
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
I see only my objective – the obstacles must give way.
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.