#strives

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#act #attain #beauty #chaos #convert

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#himself #impossible #man #only #strives

God loves to help him who strives to help himself. ↗

— Aeschylus

#help #him #himself #loves #strives

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#afloat #beyond #himself #his #horizon

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for. ↗

— James Taylor

#certain things #crap #everyone #important #life

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#both #governed #hand #inorganic #maintains

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. ↗

— John Calvin

#avoid #god #great #him #mighty

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#cruelly #few #his #i #i believe

God always strives together with those who strive. ↗

— Aeschylus

#god #strive #strives #those #together

Nobody strives to lose. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#nobody #strives