"The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will be ours if we continue our efforts courageously, even when at times they appear futile."

-- Boniface Wimmer

#Struggle Quotes #Men Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and messages, information and persuasion; it also meets a deeper need and serves a higher purpose. Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of community. It is, in short, the essential human connection.”
“There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.”
“Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].”
“If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.”
“There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.”
“Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something....”
“Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility of the kingdom of heaven, that this is the royal spirit that the King of heaven displayed, that this is Godlike, to humble oneself, to become the servant of all!”

Source : Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility and Absolute Surrender”, p.20, Hendrickson Publishers
“Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.

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