"The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to say that about any hour of one's life."

Struggle, Survival, Wrong, Injustice, Living

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"The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to say that about any hour of one's life."

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"There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for further for the cause of trouble."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to battle though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out 'rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation' a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"There is joy at the end of every struggle we face. But you can never cross over and get there with the boats of complains. Complainer is only an explainer of pain! Take action!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Some of the hardest battles we fight are those against the demons of our past, over which we have no control."

Charles F. Glassman, American Author

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"What is life but an ongoing war?"

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"People simply say "Struggles bring you success, but they do not understand that those struggles certainly fuck us too."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"My desperation is deliberate. Despondency's a pheromone."

Kris Kidd, American Writer

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"Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die."

Abhysheq Shukla, Indian Author

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"Well, whose opinion did you take? "I don't ask for opinions." "What do you go by?"Judgment. "Well, whose judgment did you take? "Mine. "But whom did you consult about it?". "Nobody."

Integrity

"Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor-by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence-and every achievement is an expression of it."

Motivational

"There are two things we must get rid of early in life: a feeling of personal superiority and an exaggerated reverence for the sexual act."

Growth

"All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good, all that which destroys it is the evil."

Character

"No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea."

Society

"Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification."

Philosophy

"Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed."

Philosophy

"Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious."

Ethics

"If, to him, love was a celebration of one's self and of existence-then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love."

Reflection

"She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted!"

Peace