Struggle


The Old Man and the Sea
A Little Life
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Wretched of the Earth
Where the Crawdads Sing
Between the World and Me
Speak
The Glass Castle
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Four Winds
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
The Great Alone
Night
The Grapes of Wrath
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Author Harold Phifer
I knew Dad was concerned about my past associations. I was from the Trash Alley. It was my community. I hung out with thugs from the Frog Bottom, the Burns Bottoms, the Red Line, the S-Curve, the Sandfield, the Morning Side, and a bunch of other places that shall remain nameless. I knew all of the “Legends of the Hood”: Sin Man, Swap, Boo Boo, Emp-Man, Cookie Man, Shank, Polar Bear, Bae Willy, Bae Bruh, Skullhead Ned, Pimp, Crunch, and Goat Turd (just to name a few). I thought maybe Dad had summ ...more
Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

Slavoj Žižek
Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves. ...more
Slavoj Žižek

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