#struggling

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anguish #forms #never #new #only

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#deal #dementia #experiencing #forget #how

I can't even take comfort in the quiet strength of pushing through circumstances no one would fault me for collapsing under. ↗

— Unknown

#circumstances #collapsing #comfort #hard #inspirational

The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored. ↗

— John Poindexter

#dollars #explored #incentive #market #need

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#any #country #democracy #either #foundation

If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#between #business #college #doing #five

This is my third ABC show over the last four years, so we were afraid that nobody would find it. ABC was really struggling and so we just weren't very confident that it would find an audience. ↗

— James Denton

#afraid #audience #confident #find #four

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#because #get #i #outsider #people

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#hidden #lousy #more #pronouncements #square

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it. ↗

— William Feather

#find #happiness #might #quit #some