Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
—Tennessee Williams
Many of us have no long-range vision in much of our struggle. We think only of the moment, this time, this place, this circumstance. But think of the ten generations of children that inherit love, and their children, and theirs. … Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
—Stephen Covey
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
—George Orwell
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
—Mahatma Gandhi
The only real struggle in the history of the world … is between the vested interest and social justice.
—Arnold Toynbee
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
—Bella Abzug
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
—Madame de Stael
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
—Rose Kennedy
Getting a living under capitalism . . . is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.
—Eugene V. Debs
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.
—Bette Midler
Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?
—Robert Musil
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
—Chögyam Trungpa
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
—Iris Murdoch
So much that was beautiful and so much that was hard to bear. Yet whenever I showed myself ready to bear it, the hard was directly transformed into the beautiful.
—Etty Hillesum
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
—Pablo Picasso