#rug

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#being #doing #expanding #goes #i

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#god #life #man #slay #struggle

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#become #cannot #difficulties #dreads #early

If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled. ↗

— Andres Iniesta

#more #sacrifice #satisfying #struggled #win

Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. Kind of made a male believe in the divine. It really did. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#heroin #inspirational #john #page- #inspirational

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. ↗

— Keith Richards

#music #philosophy #politics #music

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. ↗

— George Ade

#current #keep #literature #more #mortals

I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart. ↗

— Emily Watson

#attention #because #calculating #figuring #generally

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding. ↗

— Iyad Allawi

#setbacks #struggle #succeeding #tough

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#grief #happy #moments #struggle #writing