Pastoral Resources

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.

The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

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

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.