For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.
Hermann HesseTags: strength nature self struggle
He pulled something out of his pocket and tried to stick it in her arm. A needle. He'd offered her hope, but then he was trying to hurt her. Poison. She pushed him away. "That wasn't nice.
Melissa MarrTags: fight drugs struggle needle attack
His face was pale, and he dropped to the floor so that he was half kneeling, half sitting before her. "Please. I can...help you."
"No." She wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. Her mind felt clearer now. Everything made more sense when she wasn't so hungry. "I don't think I want the help you have."
He cradled his bloody arm and tried to stand. "This isn't right. You aren't right. You aren't suppose to be here."
"But I am.
Tags: struggle fighting attack offer pleading negotiating
Soon enough it will be me struggling (valiantly?) to walk - lugging my stuff around. How are we all so brave as to take step after step? Day after day? How are we so optimistic, so careful not to trip and yet do trip, and then get up and say O.K. Why do I feel so sorry for everyone and so proud?
Maira KalmanTags: life humanity struggle community
The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!
T.F. HodgeTags: strength dreams struggle force birth quotes surviving manifestation
Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
Tom StoppardTags: life optimism happiness struggle survival depression
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.
Criss JamiTags: art human-nature suffering mistakes struggle artists poverty symbolism perfect imperfections recovery prosperity riches starving rags rags-to-riches riches-to-rags starving-artist
Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.
It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.
Tags: wisdom marriage struggle
But she had known, better than anyone else, what demons he had faced, had known how hard he had fought to free himself from them. That he had lost the fight in the end made the struggle no less honorable.
Donna Woolfolk CrossTags: fight struggle honor demons
The path i walk lights up in flames
Roberta KarimTags: strength hope struggle life-and-death
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