2,327 Quotes About Struggle

How do the advantages in your life contribute to your opinions and actions, and how does the lack of disadvantages in certain areas keep you from fully understanding the struggles others face, and may contribute to those struggles?

People don’t respect you at your beginning stages. But will fight for your attention when you get to where you knew you were headed in the first place. Real talk. Just stay around ppl who get and respect the process.

Caught in my struggle for higher achievements, And my search for love that don’t seem to cease.

In struggle one not only fights against something--injustice, oppression--but one must struggle for something equally real but positive. That's the other part of the equation.

A man can't fight always. If he's drowning or suffocating he's got to be smart and hold back some of his strength for the last the final the death struggle.

The point is that we can dissolve the sense of dualism between us and them, between this and that, between here and there, by moving toward what we find difficult and wish to push away.

[T]he insight of the identity politics of empathy: that all of us struggle under the weight of the insecurity epidemic, and all of us must be welcome in the movements to take it on.

If the living are not happy, the dead must be turning in their graves.

There must be harder things in the world then to leave a room to enter a hall but when I do, and close my door behind me, I can't think of any. (pg. 118