I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?
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Stephanie Lennox
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
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George Carlin
Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.
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Amy Carmichael
The thing about learning how to fight is that– some of us are not born with that desire. They say some are born fighters; but they don't usually point out that others just aren't. Some of us are forced by life to take up arms...
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C. Joybell C.
Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to...
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David Sedaris
More Quotes By Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and...
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
