If You Can Capture The Humanity Of A Family Struggling In An Economic Crisis You Can Make A Difference. You Can Raise Awareness Just Of The Simple Humanity.
If You Have Kids Who Are Struggling With Dyslexia, The Greatest Gift You Can Give Them Is The Sense That Nothing Is Unattainable. With Dyslexia Comes A Very Great Gift, Which Is The Way That Your Mind Can Think Creatively.
Aesthetic Value Emanates From The Struggle Between Texts: In The Reader, In Language, In The Classroom, In Arguments Within A Society. Aesthetic Value Rises Out Of Memory, And So (as Nietzsche Saw) Out Of Pain, The Pain Of Surrendering Easier Pleasures In Favour Of Much More Difficult Ones ... Successful Literary Works Are Achieved Anxieties, Not Releases From Anxieties.
Our Nation, A Great Stage For The Acting Out Of Great Thoughts, Presents The Classic Confrontation Between Locke's Views Of The State Of Nature And Rousseau's Criticism Of Them... Nature Is Raw Material, Worthless Without The Mixture Of Human Labor; Yet Nature Is Also The Highest And Most Sacred Thing. The Same People Who Struggle To Save The Snail-darter Bless The Pill, Worry About Hunting Deer And Defend Abortion. Reverence For Nature, Mastery Of Nature- Whichever Is Convenient.
The Self Must Be A Tense Bow. It Must Struggle With Opposites Rather Than Harmonize Them, Rather Than Turn The Tension Over To The Great Instruments Of Last Manhood The Skilled Bow Unbenders And Jesuits Of Our Days, The Psychiatrists, Who, In The Same Spirit And As Part Of The Same Conspiracy Of Modernity As The Peace Virtuosos, Reduce Conflict.
I Had To Learn How To Trust My Gut. Trust What I Know To Be Right... Not Right, But Not Waver On Who I Am. Know Who I Am, Know What I Want, And Know It. Not Waver On It And Be Secure In That. And I Still Struggle With It. But I Really... I Can't Be Moved. You Can't Move Me, And That All Comes With Loving Myself, And I'm Like My Best Buddy.
We Live In An Age Of Prejudice, Dissimulation And Paradox, Wherein, Like Dry Leaves Caught In A Whirlpool, Some Of Us Are Tossed Helpless . . . Ever Struggling Between Our Honest Convictions And Fear Of That Cruelest Of Tyrants -- Public Opinion.
I Would Say Where I Feel Like I'm Struggling The Most In Learning And Giving Myself Permission To Fail Is In Finding The Balance In Life. There Are Different Aspects To Women: There's The Mother, There's The Working Woman, There's The Wife, The Friend, The Sister, The Daughter And So Just Figuring That All Out. I Continue To Want To Try New Things And Give Myself Permission To Not Be Great At It.
Struggling In My Father's Hands, Striving Against My Swaddling Bands, Bound And Weary, I Thought Best To Sulk Upon My Mother's Breast.
Yes, I Did Have To Struggle Very Hard To Get This [the Vote On The Iraq War] Through, But The Reason I Did It Was Because I Thought It Was The Right Thing To Do. I Didn't Take This On Myself... Just Because I Thought, 'let's Give Myself A Really Hard Time For A Couple Of Years!'
