Home » Quote » Will Durant » „Life is that which is discontent, which struggles and seeks, which suffers and creates.“ „Life is that which is discontent, which struggles and seeks, which suffers and creates.“ — Will Durant Tags:LifeSuffering Related quotes „As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.“ — Jr. „Nonviolence in the civil rights struggle has meant not relying on arms and weapons of struggle. It has meant noncooperation with customs and laws which are institutional aspects of a regime of discrimination and enslavement. It has meant direct participation of masses in protest, rather than reliance on indirect methods which frequently do not involve masses in action at all.Nonviolence has also meant that my people in the agonizing struggles of recent years have taken suffering upon themselves instead of inflicting it on others. It has meant, as I said, that we are no longer afraid and cowed. But in some substantial degree it has meant that we do not want to instill fear in others or into the society of which we are a part. The movement does not seek to liberate Negroes at the expense of the humiliation and enslavement of whites. It seeks no victory over anyone. It seeks to liberate American society and to share in the self-liberation of all the people.“ — Jr. „My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.“ — C.G. Jung „In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.“ — Jean Paul Sartre
„Life is that which is discontent, which struggles and seeks, which suffers and creates.“ — Will Durant Tags:LifeSuffering