Quotes for All
To live a fulfilling life, we must combine passion with compassion and strength without strife; we must get out of our comfort zone and into our strength zone; and we must work every day with discipline to ensure that our daily agenda reflects our values, our priorities, and the legacy we wish to leave for … Read more
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. Ezra Pound
I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass. Eva Hoffman
If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters’ double strife. Euripides
God helps him who strives hard. Euripides
I think that fortune watcheth o’er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally. Euripides
Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife. Euripides
Even if man’s hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, ‘he’ is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling problems are not solved then, they only begin. He strives for power or for love, or for destruction, he risks his life for religious, for political, for humanistic ideals, and … Read more
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. Eric Hoffer
God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: I am what I am. Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: I am what I am not. Eric Hoffer