#striving

How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#london #morning #nature #petty-ambitions #sherlock-holmes

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#be happy #comfort #constantly #enthusiastic #fame

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. ↗

— Buddha

#anger #begun #ceased #controversy #feel

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#dominance #maintain #middle-class #norms #prevail

And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase. ↗

— Julian Grenfell

#dead #dies #evermore #fight #fighting

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#determination #directed #each #economy #enforced

Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#age #am #blessed #even #extremely

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#continued #creativity #current #era #immortality

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#arrogant #creatures #early #god-like #i

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words. ↗

— Fred Frith

#i #i can #into #know #put