2,327 Quotes About Struggle

Hide me from this battle with words / and put out the furies of my elemental body.

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.

My only struggle has been trying to empower people who falsely believe that they are already empowered.

IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO PICK UP A GUN AGAINST A MAN TALKING REASON

We live in a story in our heads that is always trying to get us to “do” life, dictating to us, telling us we need to make ourselves and our lives better or different from what they are. In our endless trying, we have forgotten how to be. We have forgotten how to open to the marvelous and magical adventure of life. We have forgotten how to trust ourselves, to trust our lives, and to live in joy.

You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.

To lead a life of meaning and purpose, the artist must lead a life of struggle.

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

From The Necessity of Finance book: "In our modern civilization, to struggle financially means to struggle in every aspect of life (Criniti, 2013, p. 21).