#struggle

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#war #poor

... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#nightmare #struggle #choice

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers. ↗

— Yoko Ogawa

#delight #guesses #math #struggle #math

I almost wish I had cancer. Then I’d either beat it or die from it. But my disease, even if successfully treated, will never go away. And it might not kill me. But it will hang over me like the blade of a guillotine; more threatening inert than if the blade suddenly slips and mercifully turns out my lights. This is my war to end all wars. ↗

— William Cope Moyers

#recovery #struggle #recovery

My dad always said that when you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just hard as what you're going through ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#struggle

Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one. "That’s what I was supposed to say..." he gasped out. Those were his last words. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#vampire-academy #struggle

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#struggle

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#health #trembling #struggle

You only want everything you don't have" Matt from The vampire diaries ↗

— L.J. Smith

#struggle

The name is Salvatore. As in savior. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#struggle