struggle

there is no significance in life without struggle

... Modern life is always experienced as a struggle: to impose one's individuality on the world, one has to work against the fabric of modern culture itself and uphold ultimate values in the face of purely instrumental and ever more 'rational' forces.

The student body, too, felt more diverse. Rob spoke often of "real people" with his friends, by which he meant people who struggled, like they all did. On the Ivy League campus visits, any sense of daily or long-term struggle had seemed airbrushed. At Johns Hopkins___nd maybe he was only imagining this because of the Ivy League stigma absent in Baltimore___ob believed the average student had worked harder and sacrificed more to be there.

When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back.

I only laugh when I don't know on what I'm laughing to.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

His face was pale, and he dropped to the floor so that he was half kneeling, half sitting before her. "Please. I can...help you.""No." She wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. Her mind felt clearer now. Everything made more sense when she wasn't so hungry. "I don't think I want the help you have."He cradled his bloody arm and tried to stand. "This isn't right. You aren't right. You aren't suppose to be here.""But I am.

With each passing day, it became more and more convinced that the greatest threat to Kashmair's Freedom struggle is Hurriyatization

He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.

Well, we all come to it in time - we are broken down to ground-level, and must construct ourselves anew. If we survive, we become stronger: with few exceptions we do not become better. For most of us, when all else has failed, turn to the demon. ("The Overseer")

Winning and losing was suddenly elevated to be about things that had no score and no teams and no uniforms; just one player at a time dealing with his life, his own struggle, his own triumph and torment.

Sometimes the worst beatings we endure are never the physical kind.

Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.

The life of faith is a struggle enough in a broken world without us complicating it for other believers.

Struggle forms character

Humanity is defined by its struggles, not doomed by them. It is in the way we endure those struggles that we transcend our lower nature and enter a higher realm.

I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I needto see my bones or I will hate myself even more and Imight cut out my heart or take every pill that was evermade.

Anyhow, whether undergraduate or shop boy, man or woman, it must come as a shock about the age of twenty__he world of the elderly__hrown up in such black outline upon what we are; upon the reality; the moors and Byron; the sea and the lighthouse; the sheep__ jaw with the yellow teeth in it; upon the obstinate irrepressible conviction which makes youth so intolerably disagreeable___ am what I am, and intend to be it,_ for which there will be no form in the world unless Jacob makes one for himself. The Plumers will try to prevent him from making it. Wells and Shaw and the serious sixpenny weeklies will sit on its head.