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"You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can."

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"I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it."

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"I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order."

Order,

"There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake."

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"It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country."

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"Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them."

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"It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"The struggle is never easy to finding what is lost and to gain the best of what is to come without sweat."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Struggle, Effort, Future, Persistence

"The DFA and organizations like it have pushed and squeezed and elbowed out all the feeling in the world. They have clamped their fists around a geyser to keep it from exploding.But the pressure eventually builds, and the explosion will always come."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Struggle, Pressure, Emotion, Life, Resistance

"I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Struggle, Suicide, Contemplation, Reality, Life

"I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Struggle, Ordinary, Life, Sorrow

"But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low haunts, the associate of the scourings of the jails and hulks, living within the shadow of the gallows itself,--even this degraded being felt too proud to betray a feeble gleam of the womanly feeling which she thought a weakness, but which alone conneced her with that humanity, of which her wasting life had obliterated so many, many traces when a very child."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Struggle, Pride, Humanity, Weakness

"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Struggle, Depression, Mathematics, Curiosity, Suicide

"You," Seven pronounced, "are a train wreck of sexual history."But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Struggle, Pain, Hope, Salvation, Loyalty

"I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it and framed a humbler supplication. For change, stimulus. That petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space. "Then," I cried, half desperate, "grant me at least a new servitude!"

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Struggle, Liberty, Desperation, Prayer, Change

"I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each draw, as if I had strapped some unfortunate mouse to a torture device and was twisting with glee."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Struggle, Pain, Suffering, Strength, Survival

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"You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can."

"One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible."

"I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order."

"There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake."

"It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country."

"Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them."

"The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people."

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"It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst."

"The struggle is never easy to finding what is lost and to gain the best of what is to come without sweat."

"The DFA and organizations like it have pushed and squeezed and elbowed out all the feeling in the world. They have clamped their fists around a geyser to keep it from exploding.But the pressure eventually builds, and the explosion will always come."

"I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me."

"I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways."

"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."

"I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each draw, as if I had strapped some unfortunate mouse to a torture device and was twisting with glee."