Struggle Quotes - Page 38

• The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is the site of tragedy, the ultimate unresolvable paradox, for it is at once the source of life and of death.

  Margaret M. Lock

  Mind, Enemy, Tragedy

  Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.203, Univ of California Press

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• Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow sympathies and understand little that occurs around him) that the noise is often a noble uproar, "deep calling unto deep," the clamor of wonderful machinery, of great labors, of human struggles, of heroes' voices. But storms, though grand, must sink if the sea is to show the stars.

  James Vila Blake

  Stars, Hero, Voice

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• From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.

  Richard A. Proctor

  Strong, Exercise, Past

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• I am proud that I have devoted all my life to the struggle for the triumph of Leninism.

  Tim Buck

  Triumph, Proud, Devoted

  "Tim Buck: A Conscience for Canada". Book by Oscar Ryan, 1975.

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• When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Pain, Suffering, Experience

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• It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never have mounted a throne had not her cradle been rocked in a prison. Surmounted obstacles not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles; for virtue must be learnt, though, unfortunately, some of the vices come as it were by inspiration.

  James Sharp

  Inspiration, Adversity, Blessing

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• These last years are as important as any that have gone before, nor will any other of our years vitiate or excuse them. The struggle continues.

  Phyllis Bentley

  Years, Important, Gone

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• There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Beautiful, Morning, Inspiration

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• No fight is harder than the struggle against the thing you want most to believe.

  Martha Albrand

  Believe, Fighting, Thinking

  Martha Albrand (1966). “A door fell shut”

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• We must embrace the fact that if we don't commit to thinking and living differently than most people now, we are setting ourselves up to endure a life of mediocrity, struggle, failure and regret-just like most people.

  Hal Elrod

  Regret, Thinking, People

  Hal Elrod (2016). “The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• Our outer world will always be a reflection of our inner world. Our level of success is always going to parallel our level of personal development. Until we dedicate time each day to developing ourselves into the person we need to be to create the life we want, success is always going to be a struggle to attain.

  Hal Elrod

  Reflection, Needs, Each Day

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• For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth and slaves, both of which, by relieving some classes from the perpetual struggle for a bare subsistence, afford them an opportunity of devoting themselves to that disinterested pursuit of knowledge which is the noblest and most powerful instrument to ameliorate the lot of man.

  James G. Frazer

  Powerful, Men, Opportunity

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• We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Opportunity, Thinking, Battle

  "Eating With a Spiritual Compass" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.

  Megan Fox

  Mean, Self, Loathing

  "Megan's self harm" by Cosmo Team, www.cosmopolitan.com. September 17, 2009.

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• I don't exercise - that's something I struggle with.

  Debra Messing

  Exercise

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• Always maintain a joyful mind. Appreciate the struggles as opportunities to wake up.

  Jeff Bridges

  Opportunity, Appreciate, Mind

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• As a struggling actor, youre not looking for parts that define you; youre just looking for work.

  Matt Damon

  Actors, Define You, Looking For Work

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• There are sexual things that I do that aren’t for a man. I feel empowered sometimes by being sexy and being comfortable enough to be sexy on camera — a lot of woman [sic] struggle with that. But, there are some days that I don’t want anyone to see me. I’m just a regular girl. Some days, I’m super-strong; some days, I’m super-insecure. But, I don’t really identify with any particular label. I just speak my truth, and if people like it, they like it, and if they bash it, they bash it.

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Sexy, Strong

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• When you get quick fame and success and exposure, it makes you feel dizzy, and I didn't want to lose my balance 'cause that's something I've been struggling with for so many years. I'm not fond of the idea of making it in Hollywood. That's not my aim; otherwise, I would have settled down in Los Angeles.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Years, Ideas, Balance

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• The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Jobs, Careers, House

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• Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Passion, Mean

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.152

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• I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Art, Thinking, People

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• There is something so sad about going online and seeing almost everyone shouting ‘Notice me, notice me!’ Which is such a human desire—to be acknowledged. But me responding to that with some sort of ‘You’re noticed, you’re seen’ only perpetuates the loneliness. Because I’m not seeing you; I’m not noticing you. And whoever you are, you so deserve to be noticed and valued. I feel lucky to have not grown up with the Internet because it forced me to get out, struggle and be so messy.

  Taylor Schilling

  Loneliness, Desire, Lucky

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• Clean energy is about offering people the opportunity to do what's right for themselves and the people they love. It's about reducing the pollution that makes people sick. It's about helping the low-income families struggling to pay their gas and electricity bills.

  Gloria Reuben

  Opportunity, Offering, Sick

  "A Bus Ride for Clean Energy" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.

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• Before I made it big I worked as a dishwasher, washing dishes in this place called Dishwasher House where people could just come in and do whatever they wanted to the dishes and we had to clean them with our hands till they bled. A lot of struggling actors worked there-Downey Jr., Joaquin Phoenix, Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans-and we actually all kind of wish we still did.

  William H. Macy

  Hands, Phoenix, Ivory

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