#struggle

I think with my heart and love with my brain ↗

— Fernando Briceño

#love #struggles #triumphs #inspirational

Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self. ↗

— May Sarton

#struggle #writing-life #life

Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#real-life-struggle #sex #life

Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante. ↗

— Jacques Tardi

#french #interesting #life #life-lesson #life-lessons

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#class #irrationality #nirvana #reason #society

Do you want love, or do you want control? ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#love #peace #relationship-struggles #true-love #love

By looking to the Source, to the Creator of nature, we can remember how to navigate life organically, with less struggle, and less suffering. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#nature #organic #source #struggle #suffering

Then there was Buddha meddling in, telling all of the Hindu, Hebrew, Christian and Islamic gods and demons that they were nothing more than unenlightened fear induced figments of nirvana-starved mortals. ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#political-corruption #religion #revolt #religion

He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Muhammad, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports. ↗

— Reverend B. Smith

#atheist #bodyguard #caesar #christian #divine

Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggle every day to keep it under control. Others are corrupt to the core and don’t give a damn, as long as they don’t get caught. But evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#delusions #evil #good #struggle