You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.
Wayne DyerMickey Rourke’s character in ‚The Wrestler‘ – that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many members of my family. It was the only thing they knew. And then they would end up wrestling for a hundred bucks, go to autograph signings for two hundred bucks.
Dwayne JohnsonEverything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Marcus AureliusWhy am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.
Mr. TThe most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert EinsteinWe combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Henry AdamsOur national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
Franklin D. RooseveltI can’t do nothing just a little.
Dolly PartonIf life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
Wayne DyerThe more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWe spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck‚American Graffiti‘ was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.
George LucasOurs is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
Mahatma GandhiFate pulls you in different directions.
Clint EastwoodFortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William ShakespeareAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James BaldwinI do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
BuddhaBut blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander PopeI joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
Ludwig van BeethovenIt seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John RuskinCall it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMy life is a struggle.
VoltaireEverything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.
David BowieThe titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.
Nelson MandelaLife is warfare.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.
William ShakespeareIt was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry KissingerThere’s many ups and downs in the fight game.
Conor McGregorIt is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Blaise PascalI must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Anne FrankTo die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. MenckenMost of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.
Thich Nhat HanhThe formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.
Fyodor DostoevskyOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
Tennessee WilliamsMen do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
Fidel CastroThere’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.
Bruno MarsThe way up and the way down are one and the same.
HeraclitusIt is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
William ShakespeareOne of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
Barack ObamaI feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.
Russell M. NelsonA revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel CastroMan never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
PlatoI do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Gilbert K. ChestertonLife is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
Fidel CastroDestiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.
Elvis PresleyI know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.
Charles DickensThere is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson MandelaMy literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.
Paulo CoelhoYou either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
John LennonThere is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack LondonStrength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Napoleon HillI struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘
J. ColeThere is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.
Albert CamusKisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CummingsIt I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.
Richard M. NixonIf you stop struggling, then you stop life.
Huey NewtonToday, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.
Richard P. FeynmanWhat nourishes me also destroys me.
Angelina Jolie