“We are still a country where hard work and perseverance can earn you a better life... Yet we are rightfully troubled that many of our people are still caught in what seems to be a pervasive, unending financial struggle... every American deserves an equal opportunity to achieve success.” PeopleStillsCountryHardSeemsOpportunityPovertyStruggleAchieveHard WorkEqualDeservePerseveranceFinancialCaughtBetter LifeEqual OpportunityUnending Author:Marco Rubio
“There is something so sad about going online and seeing almost everyone shouting ‘Notice me, notice me!’ Which is such a human desire—to be acknowledged. But me responding to that with some sort of ‘You’re noticed, you’re seen’ only perpetuates the loneliness. Because I’m not seeing you; I’m not noticing you. And whoever you are, you so deserve to be noticed and valued. I feel lucky to have not grown up with the Internet because it forced me to get out, struggle and be so messy.” FeelsHumansDesireStruggleSeeingLonelinessInternetLuckyDeserveOnlineMessyRespondingShoutingNoticingSo SadNotice MeNoticing You Author:Taylor Schilling
“When some people rejoin with “All Lives Matter” they misunderstand the problem, but not because their message is untrue. It is true that all lives matter, but it is equally true that not all lives are understood to matter which is precisely why it is most important to name the lives that have not mattered, and are struggling to matter in the way they deserve.” PeopleWayImportantMatterProblemNamesStruggleMessagesUnderstoodDeserveUntrue Author:Judith Butler
“In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.” KnowsLoveFeelsTryingHeartOrderGrowsPayStrugglePrideHonorEnlightenmentDeservePerfectionAnd LoveDuesDivisionRelish Author:Bryant H. McGill
“America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.” AmericaStrugglePoliticianDeserve Author:Al Lewis
“Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.” WorldWantFightingStruggleMilitaryThis WorldEternalDeserveDictatorBad AssNazismMein Kampf Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf
“We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country and millions of people are struggling to put food on the table. It is my absolute conviction that everyone in this country deserves a minimum standard of living and we've got to go forward in the fight to make that happen.” PeopleWorldCountryHappensFightingPovertyMillionsStruggleChildhoodMajorsHighestStandardsDeserveAbsolutesTablesRateConvictionMinimumWorld HistoryStandards Of Living Author:Bernie Sanders
“Some parents struggle to put food on the table. And plenty of women aren't getting the pay they deserve. While I don't expect the government to solve all these problems, I do want leaders who care about these things and do what they can to help.” WantHelpingProblemGovernmentCareParentPayLeaderStruggleDeserveTablesSolvePlentyWho Cares Author:Chrissy Teigen
“I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.” ThinkingFeelingsBigsDifficultStruggleLike YouDeserveAllowingReceivingDifficult Things Author:Nicole Kidman
“If you're writing in the mainstream... Whatever that is - the norm. The norm is likely going to be funded because you're giving people what they're used to and what they're gonna get. But anything outside of that norm is going to struggle to get funded. The people who are not "the norms" deserve the chance to make art. I think it's great for all of us to consume all these voices, and that happens when you support these voices that need to be supported because they're not the automatic choice coming out of the gate.” PeopleThinkingGivingWritingArtChoicesChanceSupportStruggleDeserveGatesNorm Author:Kimberly Peirce
“I think different struggles in life, not knowing how to deal with certain things that have happened in my life made me doubt myself. Painful moments in your life can cause you to go into a state of depression where you don't believe that you deserve anything good in your life. You forget what you were created for. But after a while I just got tired of feeling like that.” ThinkingBelieveDifferentMomentsFeelingsForgetStruggleDoubtDeserveTiredPainfulLife Struggle Author:Brandy Norwood
“My struggle now is with these red carpets. It is still really hard to get people to design for me. It's frustrating because you feel like you're the minority. You feel this pull of what it means to be "sample size" and you're not that and most designers don't have anything that fits. It's so important to continuously put billboards where people see curvy women and know that we are here and we deserve to be designed for. We deserve to spend our money on expensive stuff if we want.” PeopleMeanImportantStruggleDesignLike YouFitDeserveDesignerFrustratingCarpetRed CarpetSampleMy StruggleCurvy Author:Danielle Brooks
“But I think writing should be a bit of a struggle. We're not writing things that are going to change the world in big ways. We're writing things that might make people think about people a little bit, but we're not that important. I think a lot of writers think we are incredibly important. I don't feel like that about my fiction. I feel like it's quite a selfish thing at heart. I want to tell a story. I want someone to listen to me. And I love that, but I don't think I deserve the moon on a stick because I do that.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingHeartImportantStruggleMoonDeserveSelfishChanging The WorldListen To Me Author:Evie Wyld
“Writing for me is an ongoing practice of facing and countering fears. And so, in that sense, I have always been responding to phobias. I am often most surprised by the writing that comes from facing fears that strike closest to home, poems that explore internalized phobias about gender identity, sexuality, and the body, poems that struggle with a question like do I deserve love?” WritingHomeStruggleIdentityDeserveGenderSexualityPhobia Author:Jenny Johnson
“Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing that one does not deserve the good or ill that happens in one's life; being a coward. We will love our enemies, but not make alliances with them. They were placed in our path in order to test our sword, and we should, out of respect for them, struggle against them. We will choose our enemies.” ShouldBelieveDoeFeelingsHappensOrderEnemyStrugglePathRightsDeserveTestsFaultsIllOneselfFollowingGravesGuiltyCowardAllowingItemsAlliancesParalyzedFeeling GuiltyFlowing River Author:Paulo Coelho
“The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.” OrderLiteratureLanguageStruggleDeservePrivilegeDiscourseArena Author:Salman Rushdie
“If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America, because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.” IfsKnowsStatesAmericaHousePresidentLinesWhiteWalksUnitedUnited StatesStruggleComfortableDeserveStandingWorkersShoesCornersPairsWhite HouseDeniedOrganizeUnited States Of AmericaBargainsPair Of ShoesAmerican Workers Author:Barack Obama
“The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.” KnowsArtistDifferencesCreativityStruggleHighestDeserveRewardsCreatorImprovingLives Of Others Author:Alan Cohen