c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Exercise has a direct brain connection, when you consider what it actually does. What we tend to overlook are the feedback loops that connect the brain to every cell in the body. Therefore when you throw a ball, run on a treadmill, or jog along the shore, billions of cells are "seeing" the outside world. The chemicals transmitted form the brain are acting the way sense organs do, making contact with the outside world and offering stimulation from that world.This is why the jump from being sedentary to doing a minimal amount of exercise - such as walking, light gardening, and climbing the stairs instead of taking the elevator - is so healthy. Your cells want to be part of the world.
— Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being
A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.("Three O'Clock")
— Cornell Woolrich, The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: Rear Window and Other Stories / I Married a Dead Man / Waltz into Darkness
There is no medicine or other intervention that appears to be nearly as effective as exercise in maintaining or even bumping up a person's cognitive abilities.
— Gretchen Reynolds, The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can: Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer
Your brain is like a plant. If you plant a seed in it, it will grow into a big idea.
— Jane Kang
Many „pathogens“ (both chemical and behavioral) can influence how you turn out; these include substance abuse by a mother during pregnancy, maternal stress, and low birth weight. As a child grows, neglect, physical abuse, and head injury can cause problems in mental development. Once the child is grown, substance abuse and exposure to a variety of toxins can damage the brain, modifying intelligence, aggression, and decision-making abilities. The major public health movement to remove lead-based paint grew out of an understanding that even low levels of lead can cause brain damage that makes children less inteligent and, in some cases, more impulsive and aggressive. How you turn out depends on where you´ve been. So when it comes to thinking about blameworthiness, the first difficulty to consider is that people do not choose their own developmental path.It´s problematic to imagine yourself in the shoes of a criminal and conclude, „Well, I wouldn´t have done that“ – because if you weren´t exposed to in utero cocaine, lead poisoning, or physical abuse, and he was, then you and he are not directly comparable.
— David Eagleman
You are not really free, and that is why you do not know what I am talking about.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated activity is modulated by sensory input. In this view, the difference between being awake and being asleep is merely that the data coming in from the eyes anchors the perception. Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what´s in front of you. Other examples of unanchored perception are found in prisoners in pitch-park solitary confinement, or in people in sensory deprivation chambers. Both of these situations quickly lead to hallucinations.
— David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Idols of the injury,dug in behind the least understoodmotor plan information.The vile abomination temporal lobes andThe four loathsome memory walls andThe four reasoning, arithmetic beastsare found for all behind pain and planes.Portrayed as a house,Go in, function, cause blindness fromThe house's hearing spirit, judgment andThe court's four bronze woes andThe functioning brain lobe wings,Go in, hearing and perception,I dig under door fronts, pain and plans.
— Bill Ectric, Tamper
Humankind made these religions; that our brains are capable of doing that is neither something to take too seriously — because we also make poop, and we learned to flush that the fuck down the toilet — but it's also not something to totally disregard.
— Dan  Harmon
The brain has only three functions: open, closed, or deprived.
— Anthony Liccione
Eat some food.
— Jed Hansen
Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!
— Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
— David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.
— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.
— Peter Watts, Blindsight
Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.
— Donita K. Paul, DragonFire
The most powerful sex organ was the brain, you know what that meansPoor Justin!
— Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want
Our brains contain one hundred billion nerve cells (neurons). Each neuron makes links with ten thousand other neurons to form an incredible three dimensional grid. This grid therefore contains a thousand trillion connections - that's 1,000,000,000,000,000 (a quadrillion). It's hard to imagine this, so let's visualise each connection as a disc that's 1mm thick. Stack up the quadrillion discs on top of each other and they will reach the sun (which is ninety-three million miles from the earth) and back, three times over.
— Nessa Carey, The Epigenetics Revolution
Life is about solving for x
— Jane Lescarbeau
But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.
— Peter Watts, Blindsight
Without a response, I just stand there like an idiot. Like she just slapped my brain out of my skull and I can’t think.
— Rebecca A. Rogers
The seat of consciousness and intelligence was from the earliest times regarded by the Egyptians as both the heart and the bowels or abdomen. Our surgeon, however, has observed the fact that injuries to the brain affect other parts of the body, especially in his experience the lower limbs. He notes the drag or shuffle of one foot, presumably the partial paralysis resulting from a cranial wound, and the ancient commentator carefully explains the meaning of the obsolete word used for "shuffle.
— James Henry Breasted, The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary
Most of everything is very little of not very much at all.
— Richard Edward Harding, The Summerhouse Project: Cryptic Visions
Here we see the word "brain" occurring for the first time in human speech, as far as it is known to us; and in discussing injuries affecting the brain, we note the surgeon's effort to delimit his terms as he selects for specialization a series of common and current words to designate three degrees of injury to the skull indicated in modern surgery by the terms "fracture", "compound fracture," and "compound comminuted fracture," all of which the ancient commentator carefully explains.
— James Henry Breasted, The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary
I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.
— Eben Alexander
Life's a climb. But the view is great.
— Miley Cyrus
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
— Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents: Volume 1 Paperback: 001
All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.
— Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle.... Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.
— B.R. Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no life without struggle.
— Santosh Kalwar
Written up in marker on a factory sign:I struggle with the feeling that my life isn't mine
— Coldplay, Mylo Xyloto #2: Cover-Up
I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.
— L.J. Smith, The Awakening / The Struggle
We all struggle with something, and need help. Whatever it is that you can't conquer on your own, I encourage you to give it to the Lord; He can fix anything! Your struggle is no more because VICTORY has taken it's place!! Have a VICTORIOUS day!
— Anita R. Sneed-Carter
Procrastination can wait for Tomorrrow.
— Michelle Marie
You will not experience dramatic change in your struggle as long as you use accountability to describe your sins instead of declaring your need for help in the midst of temptation.
— Heath Lambert, Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace
To succeed in this competition means finding yourself in a place where you call the shots and gets the gain. This is not an easy feat, unless you are born into it. if you are not, you will need to out-smart your equals. You need to be more ambitious than they are. You need to work harder. You need to look better and smarter. You need to justify why it should be you and not them. It’s a competition.
— Emi Iyalla
The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.
— Yōko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor
If there's one area of me that the devil's got a hold of, it's my tongue.
— Stefne Miller, Collision
Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.
— Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself
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.
— Melissa Marr, Graveminder
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")
— Albert E. Cowdrey, Best New Horror 20
i need someonewho knows struggleas well as i dosomeonewilling to hold my feet in their lapon days it is too difficult to standthe type of person who givesexactly what i needbefore i even know i need itthe type of lover who hears meeven when i do not speakis the type of understandingi demand- the type of lover i need
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
Real life is just another stage.Just another stage where I have to look and actLike I have everything put together;everything neat, perfect, and in order,when in reality I’m slowly dying,Slowly decaying, screaming and clawing,at this little box I’ve been put into, Trying desperately to escape.
— Justin Wetch, Bending The Universe
I am called to enter into the inner sanctuary of my own being where God has chosen to dwell. The only way to that place is prayer, unceasing prayer, Many struggles and much pain can clear the way but I am certain that only unceasing prayer can let me enter it.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son Anniversary Edition: A Special Two-in-One Volume, including Home Tonight
I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could no longer answer his own door, dry himself after a shower, or even roll over in bed. How could he be so accepting? I watched him struggle with a fork, picking at a piece of tomato, missing it the first two times - a pathetic scene, and yet I could not deny that sitting in his presence was almost magically serene, the same calm breeze that soothed me back in college.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
A warrior confronts colonialism with the truth in order to regenerate authenticity and recreate a life worth living and principles worth dying for. The struggle is to restore connections severed by the colonial machine. The victory is an integrated personality, a cohesive community, and the restoration of respectful and harmonious relationships.
— Taiaiake Alfred, Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom
I don't appreciated how often people hide their scars and doubts. Really, it's not fair to people who are struggling, to go on believing that everyone else just has it totally together and never has one bad thought in their lives.
— Emery Lord, When We Collided
He fought to destroy those monsters, yet found they never seemed to die—rising anew every dawn.
— Elizabeth D. Marie, Saving Beauty
I thought and pondered -- vainly. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations,
— Mary Shelly, Frankenstein
Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.
— Iain Cameron Williams, Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall
I have seen plenty of ‘Struggle minus Success’ stories where you are forced to ask yourself ‘Why to him/her?’. There are few questions unanswered as it isn’t that hard work is the sole companion to achieve greatness because there are people still toiling for their first good break, first high salaried job, first best employee award, first terrific trip abroad, first buck-up cheer to perform excellently, first smile to relax you out from the stress, first pat to motivate you further, first kiss to give a feeling that whatever happened to you till then was just a ‘Test’. Unfortunately, the test never ends for many.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi, The Weak Point Dealer
I always wondered and perplexed about me not getting any attention for whatever good I did or keep doing in my personal and professional life. Finally, I found the gem of an answer. It was just that I was doing good for the wrong reason and not trying to do the best for the rightful reason.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
Struggle is less effective than doing nothing.
— Marty Rubin
No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing how hard it is to carry on when no one loves you.
— Tupac Shakur
When we regularly struggle to achieve the goals, either we get used to the struggle or we find a way to avoid the struggle. If we get used to the struggle than every new task will increase the distance between our struggle & goals, but if we find a way to avoid the struggle the goals will be as close as the shortcut to any destination.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
To awaken to the living dream within one’s life and remain awake in a world trying to lull everyone to sleep involves repeated struggle, yet also presents something truly worth fighting for.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
I’m using Mao as my inspiration. “Cast away illusions. Prepare for struggle.” I’m back in business, baby. You don’t know you’re stuck until you get moving.
— Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing
Conflict is the essence of the self.
— J.Krishnamurti
In life we struggle to make sense of it all.When we should just except the way life is and make it better for all concerned.
— Anthony T. Hincks
The mark you give is as a result of your search and struggles
— Sunday Adelaja
Justice, as it turned out, was a lot harder than war. War was largely a series of technical questions, a matter of taking living human bodies and making them dead. There were infinite variations in the tactics and the strategy, of course, nuances in weaponry and technique, but the basic premise was bedrock: you’d done it right if you were alive at the end of the day, and the other poor fool was not.
— Brian Staveley, The Last Mortal Bond
It's a struggle but you have to keep going.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
The Struggle is in your name, Samori - you were named for Samori Toure, who struggled against French colonizers for the right to his own black body. He died in captivity, but the profits of that struggle and others like it are ours, even when the object of our struggle, as is so often true, escapes our grasp.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back.
— Philip K. Dick, Radio Free Albemuth
... 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.
— Nicholas Gane, Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalization Versus Re-enchantment
There are obstacles in my way and I am going to deal with it.
— Sharfaraz Ahmed
Why does he strive to reach for that star? It's the very star he lives upon! He works. He reaches. He struggles. He seeks. He finds! ...Never knowing he possessed it all along.
— Kate McGahan
He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.
— Philip Roth, American Pastoral
sometimes we fall because we don't struggle to prevent ourselves from falling
— D WordSmith
Success has interesting phenomenon -The more hardships you face for it, The more glorious and inspirational it will be
— raja shakeel mushtaque
Hardships scorch as sun burns each entity to glow it golden.
— raja shakeel mushtaque
I only laugh when I don't know on what I'm laughing to.
— Moozy Mathers
Angel slowly closed her door then sighed as she leaned against it feeling the sudden loss of her new love leaving for a while which they forgot to exchange on, and they have a positive outcome. Soon as Angel got up from the door, her doorbell rang she was hoping it was just Jana coming back again for something else, but when she looked at the peephole she saw it was Scarlett so she sighed and unlocked her door saying,"What do you need Scarlett? We broke up a long time ago."Scarlett pushed Angel inside, and they both landed on the couch as Scarlett kissed her long and hard as Angel try to shove her off then once she pushed her off saying,"What do you want Scarlett?"Scarlett gave a sweet smile replying,"I want you back of course baby, you are my world I realize that."Angel shoved her out of the apartment replying,"Get the heck out of here and never come back, you found love in someone else and so have I, so get out, GET OUT!
— Amber M. Kestner, Jana & Angel Volume 1
I have all the power, but you will destroy me. “Only your walls, Lark.” He deepened the kiss, licking into my mouth as if he knew he’d find me there hiding from him.
— Amy Harmon, The Bird and the Sword
Any person striving to accomplish anything worthwhile will risk their personal vivacity by assuming responsibility that exceeds their talent and abilities and work beyond their physical strength and emotional stamina. A motivated person will endure loneliness and despair and open-mindedly accept righteous criticism.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I smile. No plan can take everything into account. Other people will raise their heads, others will desert. Time will go on spreading victory and defeat among those who pursue the struggle.I sip with satisfaction. We deserve the warmth of baths. May the days be aimless.Do not advance the action according to a plan.
— Luther Blissett, Q
You will have to pay for your choices much more than you realize.
— Fatima Bhutto, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
After you cross a hurdle, it looks so easy. Sometimes, it may feel that it was always possible. However, for that feeling of euphoria, you have to slog. After all, nothing comes for free!
— Neelam Saxena Chandra
What is the purpose? Do no ask. No one knows, not even God, as He advances along with us, He too, searching and being exposed to danger; He too is given a struggle. Hunger and injustice exist in the heart, as does abundance of darkness. The things you see are not specters; no matter how much blow, they will not be dispelled. They are flesh and bone. Touch them; they exist. Don't you hear a cry in the air? They are crying. What are they crying? Help! To whom they are crying? You! You: every man. Rise up. Our duty is not to ask questions, but to clasp hands one and all and mount the ascent. (Report to Greco)
— N. Kazantzakis
Struggle forms character
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.
— Angela Y. Davis
Sometimes life just hits you, right in the face. And it’s alright. Because I, for one, think it’s kinda cool to have a black eye every now and then. And I think it’s definitely okay to have scars, and it’s definitely okay to hurt, and be in pain and show it. And that’s why we have friends in this life. And it’s why we have music.
— Hayley Williams
I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.
— Mercedes Lackey, Arrow's Flight
Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.
— Otto Rank, Beyond Psychology
Fear has silenced the voice of truth in your world, and this is the anguish with which you struggle.
— Pat Rodegast
Nezhdanov's heart began to beat violently and he lowered his eyes involuntarily. This girl, who had fallen in love with a homeless wretch like him, who trusted him, who was ready to follow him, to go with him towards one and the same goal — this wonderful girl — Marianna — at that moment was, for Nezhdanov, the embodiment of everything good and just on earth; the embodiment of that love, that of a family, sister or wife, which he had not experienced; the embodiment of homeland, happiness, struggle and freedom.
— Ivan Turgenev, Virgin Soil
Carry me away. To where I can breathe. To where my soul can thrive again. To where I can be free. To where I can live again. Give me life. The ability to span my wings. And fly. Not fall. I never want to fall again. So help me survive. Allow me to flourish. And then let me forgive. (tattoo inscription)
— Jessica Sorensen, Wreck Me
If we know one thing from experience it is that oppression does not crush rebellion, no matter how it tries,' I told him. 'It breeds it anew with every tyrannical act.
— Isobelle Carmody, Red Queen: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book 7
The struggle hurts now but will be sweet in times of retrospect.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
We all came to Seattle in hopes of building better lives. No one said we wouldn't have to struggle first.
— Regina Scott, Instant Frontier Family
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.
— Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster
A man is a man is a man. His family threatened, his beliefs attacked, his way of life destroyed, his whole world coming to an end - he will kill. Make no mistake. He won't let the new order roll over him without a struggle.
— Zadie Smith, White Teeth
The happiest of endings begin with a struggle so embrace yours
— Nomzamo Nhlumayo
Always remember that the people are not fighting for ideas, nor for what is in men’s minds. The people fight and accept the sacrifices demanded by the struggle in order to gain material advantages, to live better and in peace, to benefit from progress, and for the better future of their children. National liberation, the struggle against colonialism, the construction of peace, progress and independence are hollow words devoid of any significance unless they can be translated into a real improvement of living conditions.
— Amilcar Cabral, Return To The Source: Selected Speeches Of Amilcar Cabral
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.
— D.J. Niko, The Oracle
Don't take it as a struggle. Consider it as your pursuit for the unseen rewards.
— Steven Chopade
We rarely recognize the extent to which human happiness requires struggle.
— Phil Harvey
Everybody walks to somewhere or everybody runs to somewhere simply because those somewheres don’t walk to us or don’t run to us! No struggle happens, no nothing happens!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Your struggles and tears will NEVER be wasted but will be transformed into a healing balm after your victory, release and manifestation comes. You've won already. Hold on just a little while longer. Everything will be alright. We serve a God whose Name is FAITHFUL.
— Theresa Pecku-Laryea
While the whole world is struggling to help people get their freedom from the dangers of smoking, yet the over five million people, who yearly die from smoking still voluntarily head towards that deadly part.
— Sunday Adelaja
An oath is the most powerful weapon we have in our struggle against fornication and adultery
— Sunday Adelaja
... what it really was like to live a life determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers' days are determined by the struggle against thirst and those of dwellers amid snow and ice by the struggle against the numbing of cold.
— Nadine Gordimer
You cannot deny the struggle
—  the struggle denies you.
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––and maybe he was only imagining this because of the Ivy League stigma absent in Baltimore––Rob believed the average student had worked harder and sacrificed more to be there.
— Jeff Hobbs, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
You don't have to understand woman. You only have to respect them and understand why.
— Matt Leani
The forefront is not the arena of winners, stay where you are, wherever you are, when its your time, you'll speed off like a psycopath.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Bad moments don't last forever, things do get better.
— Shailee J-N
... answered his knock with a smile, a short one forced through because she was at heart a warm person, not given to the dark mood swings which now plagued her.
— John Grisham, The Partner
I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for the end. You are worth it.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those around you. Phineas, as he preached himself this sermon, declared to himself that they who attempted more than this flew too high in the clouds to be of service to men an women upon the earth
— Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn
Not all women will fall for every man, but some women will surely fall for the right man.
— Santosh Kalwar, That's My Love Story
We all have struggle in our lives. We're all searching for personal freedom, whether we're in a bad place or trying to be true to ourselves.
— Barbara Becker Holstein
Like infants, when they are born into the world, God's children are not born again in the full possession of their spiritual faculties; and it is well and wisely ordered that it is so. What we win easily, we seldom value sufficiently. The very fact that believers have to struggle and fight hard before they get hold of real soundness in the faith, helps to make them prize it more when they have attained it. The truths that cost us a battle are precisely those which we grasp most firmly, and never let go.
— J.C. Ryle, Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century
When you see that earthly powers are not listening to you, that you are under siege in this city for four years and shot at without the international community doing anything to help, what should you do? Die?’ he asked me in the course of our conversation. ‘No, you pray to Heaven for help.
— Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
Ruefully admitting we can neither remain children nor all become artists still less saints and mystics, we turn back, regretfully, but massively, to the time-ridden world.
— Alan McGlashan, The Savage & Beautiful Country
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.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
I feel that there has to be a purpose to what we do. If there was no hope at all, we should just sleep or drink and wait for death. But we don’t want to do that. And why? I think something tells us that we should struggle. We don’t really know why we should struggle, but we do, because we think it’s better than sitting down and waiting for calamity.
— Chinua Achebe
Everyday is a struggle but it's how you deal with your struggles that make you stronger or weaker.
— Alcurtis Turner
That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things
Unmet desires are the source of most of the conflict and many of the struggles in our lives. When we don’t get what we want, or when and how we want it, life can get pretty ugly.
— Kurt W. Bubna, Epic Grace: Chronicles of a Recovering Idiot
The Creator never singles out an individual for an important service to mankind without first testing him, through struggle, in proportion to the nature of the service he is to render.
— Napoleon Hill, You Can Work Your Own Miracles
Is it a crime to be strong?' That's something you might have asked. And I would have answered by asking the opposite question...'Is it a crime to be weak?
— Naoyuki Ochiai, Syndrome 1866 T06
But the fantasy kingdom and trappings of success soon lost their luster, as I discovered that the most prestigious and remunerative of my resume's way stations was also the most tedious and unfulfilling I had ever experienced. This paradox only made me more morose about modernity. Why was I going to watch my hairline recede in front of two-thousand-line spreadsheets staring at me from cold, glowing monitors? Why was everyone in my office apparently so happy to be spending so many hours there, when the things they really cared about - people, pets, pastimes - were all relegated to a few photographs on their desks? That seemed to be the formula: spend the best years of your life in an office with photos of what you really care about.
— Zack Love, The Doorman
The life of faith is a struggle enough in a broken world without us complicating it for other believers.
— Jake Colsen, So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore: An Unexpected Journey
The raw elements of gold and silver are refined and purified by intense heat. The same is true for you and me. To attain the purest beauty of who we truly are…we all must be forged by fire. The struggles and trials we suffer and learn from are all part of the refining process towards the priceless beauty that’s within us all. God knows that at your soul’s enduring core lies the truest of all treasures. ~Jason Versey
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
It is not important how many competitions you have attended, it only matters how many you have won.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
All Individuals in this world struggle and fight their own battles.Very Few choose to fight the battles worth fighting for.The ones that serve as an instrument of liberation,an instrument of hope and everything that is right with this world.
— Mohammad Rafiq Teli
People simply say “Struggles bring you success”, but they do not understand that those struggles certainly fuck us too.
— M.F. Moonzajer
The toughest moment ever in life is the distance between struggle and success.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.
— Colin S. Smith, The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life
I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
If it supports the liberation struggle of Black people then it is good. If it is in opposition to the liberation struggle of Black people then it is bad. If it supports the liberation struggle of Black people then it is moral. If it opposes the liberation struggle, then it is immoral. If it supports the liberation struggle of Black people, then it is the will of GOD. If it opposes the liberation struggle of Black people, then it is satanic. With this simple key to the mysteries of life both events and institutions can be judged.
— Albert B. Cleage Jr., Black Christian Nationalism: New Directions For The Black Church
there is no significance in life without struggle
— Lolly Daskal, Thoughts Spoken From The Heart
When we do the hard stuff for the first 20 years we will have an easier life for the 60, but if we take it easy for the first 20 then we will live a life of struggle later on.
— N.N. Porchezhiyan
With each passing day, it became more and more convinced that the greatest threat to Kashmair's Freedom struggle is Hurriyatization
— Bilal Bashir Magry
Most things we need in life are only inch deep below the ground, all you need to do is dig it out... using the wind that you blow away.So start blowing now...
— Nathaniel E. Quimada
Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Sometimes the worst beatings we endure are never the physical kind.
— Dannika Dark, Gravity
Anyhow, whether undergraduate or shop boy, man or woman, it must come as a shock about the age of twenty—the world of the elderly—thrown up in such black outline upon what we are; upon the reality; the moors and Byron; the sea and the lighthouse; the sheep’s jaw with the yellow teeth in it; upon the obstinate irrepressible conviction which makes youth so intolerably disagreeable—“I 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.
— Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
Life without strife is a rose without thorns.Alive as one is thriving today towards tomorrow,Nowhere is the past but simply a school of memory.Dreams, wishes, goals then becomes a wheel of “wills,”Spirit of a unique being on each soul breathing.Care to ponder some matter or another?Awareness sliding towards discovery gliding…Peace, contentment, fulfillment,Enwrapped like a mirage enchantment.Soaring freely, excitingly, happily home-love-bound!Over precious moments in a breathing of a soul,Flowing high emotions, feelings, hearts in bliss.All around any season of one's existence, one asks: “Anyone out there? A heart of a soul that didn’t harden? A touch of a soul that didn’t hurt? A life of a soul that didn't love?”Sands of time, rough, warm, indefinite, simply spreading, transforming, mounting.Oasis of a soul from a desert journey, flourishing with endless beauty and security.Utmost bliss, fulfillment and contentment, under covers a struggling, hopeful soul,Laboring service, living justice,  loving peace and tranquillity passed on to humanity!�
— Angelica Hopes, Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul
She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her in this world, I will find myself defending both her right to struggle and our obligation to remember.
— Ariel Dorfman, Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey
The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.
— Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco
Never struggle against any obstacle; Observe, concentrate and witness;Accept, indulge to transform and overcome,For or against, but with equal respect and in totality.
— Gian Kumar
When things went dark and you search for a light to see things clearly, that light is guidance. Don't wait for it, actually you have to search for it.
— M.H. Rakib
We again bear the cost of those who enjoyed their whole life while we were struggling.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
— Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
What excited and challenged her shipmates horrified the churched women and each set believed the other deeply, dangerously flawed. Although they had nothing in common with the views of each other, they had everything in common with one thing: the promise and threat of men.Here, they agreed, was where security and risk lay. And both had come to terms.
— Toni Morrison, A Mercy
You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.
— Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire
If you want to get what you haven’t gotten yet, then you have to do more than what you were doing before.
— M.F. Moonzajer
In life, there is only one way to exist: To struggle!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
One can’t be on the topmost rung of a ladder from before, it takes time to reach it, to climb it, one at a time. We struggle so that in this process of climbing we can learn, so that we can limit our impatience and grow stronger than we ever imagined to be.We struggle so that once we learn, we can preach about it to others who consider this act of struggling, spiteful.
— Chirag Tulsiani
It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.
— James Fox, Killer on Campus
Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold?The tree says to the leaf:"That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.
— Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.
— Tyler Perry
Struggle shapes our character. And character dictates what we will become.
— Jeff Goins, Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into your Comfortable Life
Question and AnswerDurban, Birmingham,Cape Town, Alabama,Johannesburg, Watts,The earth aroundStruggling, fighting,Dying--for what?A world to gain.Groping, hoping,Waiting--for what?A world to gain.Dreams kicked asunder,Why not go under?There's a world to gain.But suppose I don't want it,Why take it?To remake it.
— Langston Hughes, The Panther and the Lash
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
I used to think, that when my old inner demons started creeping back into my life, that it was a sign of failure or moral weakness. But the saints have shown me that part of the human condition is to struggle with the same sins and suffering over and over again. Once I accepted the fact that I’d probably always have to be on guard against spiritual attacks related to food and my weight, I began to really recover.
— Kate Wicker, Weightless: Making Peace with Your Body
How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.
— René Char, Selected Poems
Struggle strengthens the human bond and lightens the burden of the human condition.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
No ordinary effort stops the wheel.In sleep it spins without resistance.Passively, falling deeper, lacking the will to activate any change.
— Stephen Demone, The Swiss Orange Project Book 1: Celladore
We all have paid the cost of our success.
— M.F. Moonzajer
How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It is better to struggle pursuing what matters than to excel at achieving the inconsequential.
— D.A. Blankinship, The Scoloderus Conspiracy
...Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart that breaks...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
You can't truly appreciate the top if you've never hit rock bottom.
— Vanna B.
A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I must go on living. And, though itmay be childish of me, I can't go on insimple compliance. From now on I muststruggle with the world. I thought thatMother might well be the last of thosewho can end their lives beautifully andsadly, struggling with no one, neitherhating nor betraying anyone. In theworld to come there will be no room forsuch people. The dying are beautiful,but to live, to survive – those thingssomehow seem hideous andcontaminated with blood.
— Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but because of the noble comradeship which binds all Legionaries in a sacred brotherhood of struggle.
— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, For My Legionaries
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.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Faith, is the road that goes straight past the gravel, and cloud-mesh dirt into a mirage, where still you believe to go straight, and when you finally catch up with it, it ends at a lake where you stretch your eyes across, but unable to glimpse the other side- so you jump in and swim, gliding each stroke with tiredness and swallow of water, you reach the end, put a hand out and pull yourself up on concrete, where the same road continues straight into another blue-white blur.
— Anthony Liccione
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
— Winston S. Churchill
If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
— Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
— Bob Dylan
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
— Andy Warhol
Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
— Abraham Lincoln
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may dev
— Winston S. Churchill
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
— John Wooden
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
— Benjamin Disraeli
1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They’re also entitled to express them online.2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don’t like.3. Sometimes those opinions won’t be very nice.4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) ass
— John Scalzi
Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.
— Elvis Presley
It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.
— Chuck Klosterman
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
— John Wooden
In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
— Gustave Flaubert, November
You sounded like Dolly parton on helium."(After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)
— Simon Cowell
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Don’t criticize them
—  they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns"(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero'by Mariah Carey)
— Simon Cowell
That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
— Jonathan Swift