#rug

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#become #block #building #building block #constantly

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#complexities #struggle

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#avoid #belief #calm #change #dissatisfied

I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it. ↗

— Mike Pence

#american people #bailout #behind #bill #capitol

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#dared #i #struggle #today #win

I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#failed #going #had #i #kept

The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#back #bowling #bowling alley #brings #club

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life. ↗

— Jacques Prevert

#cool #dress #life #my life #night

In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#bring #cant #critics #feeling #gets

The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#asked #career #careers #debt #down