struggle quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"The way I looked at it, I was born in hell and every time I won a fight, that was one step out of it."
145
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
177
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
376
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."
407
"The obstacle is the way."
408
"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves."
1041
"Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for."
1152
"You and everyone you know are going to be dead soon. And in the short amount of time between here and there, you have a limited amount of fucks to give. Very few, in fact. And if you go around giving a fuck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice—well, then you’re going to get fucked."
1153
"The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience."
1154
"The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering."
1155
"Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience."
1156
"Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible, but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it. To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain. In contrast, if you’re able to not give a fuck about the pain, you become unstoppable."
1157
"This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes."
1162
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
56
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
371
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
1033
"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter."
1089