Quotes about struggle
struggle feminism culture
Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels. bell hooks
struggle thinking race
If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundamentally informs my life, which is that I’m a seeker on the path. I think of feminism, and I think of anti-racist struggles as part of it. But where I stand spiritually is, steadfastly, on a path about love.
struggle self criticism
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle... Balthus
struggle rights political
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations. Aung San Suu Kyi
struggle heart rights
...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all. Arundhati Roy
struggle heart imagination
But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
struggle artist odds
Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it. Ariel Pink
struggle moving grace
We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace. Arianna Huffington
struggle self fire
It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one. Anthony Trollope
struggle information tides
Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food. Diane Abbott
struggle garden order
Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them. Diane Ackerman
struggle past odds
When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do. Demi Moore
struggle play able
When I sing or play music, I'm able to relieve myself of whatever it is that I'm struggling with. Demi Lovato
struggle panic bed
Right now someone out there is struggling and starting to panic because they can't get out of a tempurpedic bed. Demetri Martin
struggle writing giving
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people. Dean Koontz
struggle cutting reality
Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away Billy Bragg
struggle life-and-death world
My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world. Bobby Fischer
struggle self people
The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle. Brennan Manning
struggle names people
I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.
struggle self feelings
Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)
struggle compassion practice
It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
struggle creativity joy
Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.
struggle space feelings
Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.
struggle function
Hope is a function of struggle.
struggle two space
Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing them is a privilege, and we should always ask ourselves this before we share: "Who has earned the right to hear my story?" If we have one or two people in our lives who can sit with us and hold space for our shame stories, and love us for our strengths and struggles, we are incredibly lucky. If we have a friend, or small group of friends, or family who embraces our imperfections, vulnerabilities, and power, and fills us with a sense of belonging, we are incredibly lucky.
struggle together purpose
I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music. Brandy Norwood
struggle cost obtaining
My service solidified my respect for our freedom, and the struggle to preserve it. I know the cost of obtaining freedom, keeping it and the value of it. Brad Wenstrup
struggle native-american rights
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't. Bonnie Raitt
struggle years thick
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle. Barry Humphries
struggle character thinking
Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles. I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles. People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made. I hope it's of interest to people. One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding. Barbara Broccoli
struggle lasts majority
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last. Arthur Schopenhauer
struggle mean class
The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development. Antonio Gramsci
struggle reality feelings
One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality