"Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle."
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"The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
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"There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky."
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"Sometimes you feel in control, and it's great, but sometimes you just don't feel in control and you really have to struggle to get laughs."
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"Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable."
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"My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge."
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"In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful."
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"It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance."
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"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)"
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"Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain."
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"I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists."
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"But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The seas, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death--these are things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all. Striving towards realism is therefore legitimate, for it is basically related to the artistic adventure."
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"The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need."
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"Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original."
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"The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy."
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"The weakness of cable news is that it chases its audience around. Your audience wants fast-paced, popular news. It needs real news. Cable news changes its stripes based on audience reaction. Viewers are reacting well to breaking news? You probably do more breaking news than you need to. The struggle is building something so that people will come to you, as opposed to constantly changing what you are because you're unsure of where the audience is."
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"I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe I should try prose. It was a real struggle to begin because, first of all, there were so many words on the page - it was terrifying... Beginning was awful."
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"I do look in the mirror frequently. But I look past the physical and I feel proud of what I see, because I know where my heart is and the struggles I've been through to be able to stand where I'm standing."
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"All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality."
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"Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together."
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