„I found a joy in myself, coming from the awareness that I want to fight.“

„Joy! Joy! I triumph! Now no more I know
Myself as simply me.“

—  Attar of Nishapur Persian Sufi poet 1145 - 1221

"The Triumph of the Soul" as translated by Margaret Smith in The Persian Mystics
Context: Joy! Joy! I triumph! Now no more I know
Myself as simply me. I burn with love
Unto myself, and bury me in love.
The centre is within me and its wonder
Lies as a circle everywhere about me.
Joy! Joy! No mortal thought can fathom me.

„Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.“

—  Saul Bellow Canadian-born American writer 1915 - 2005

„I want to be the best fighter. I would like to fight in the biggest fights.“

—  Manny Pacquiao Filipino boxer, basketball player, singer and politician, dancer. 1978

Conference Call before the "Blaze of Glory: Pacquiao vs. Solis"
As quoted in "Manny Pacquaio/Bob Arum Conference Call Transcript," http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=10519&more=1 at East Side Boxing (2007-07-04)

„You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?"
"I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home.“

—  Ágota Kristóf Hungarian Swiss writer 1935 - 2011

Source: The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

„I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.“

—  Ai Weiwei Chinese concept artist 1957

2010-, Never Sorry, 2012

„From praise comes joy, from joy – strength, from strength – virtue, from virtue – purity and from purity comes realization of one’s full potential.“

—  Leon MacLaren British philosopher 1910 - 1994

Leon MacLaren, The Machinery of Government, 1998

„I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism.“

—  Enoch Powell British politician 1912 - 1998

Source: Remarks to student hecklers at a speech in Cardiff (8 November 1968), from Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), p. 489

„I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small.“

—  James Frey, book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

„Before I die, I want to fight for life.“

—  Paulo Coelho Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

„Now through the vagaries of fortune, most of these 10.3 million Jews remained alive, so I say to myself: fate wished it so. I have to subordinate myself to fate and destiny. I am just a little man and don't have to fight against this, and I couldn't, and I don't want to.“

—  Adolf Eichmann German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer 1906 - 1962

Argentina Audiotapes (1957)

„Maryse: I am fighting for a better world for myself and my son.
Magnus: I have no interest in the world you want or in your doubteless repellent brat, I might add.“

—  Cassandra Clare American author 1973

Source: The Last Stand of the New York Institute

„Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.“

—  Margaret Mitchell, Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

„I like joy; I want to be joyous. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that`s all I want. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.“

—  Doris Day American actress, singer, and animal rights activist 1922 - 2019

„yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music“

—  Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981

„I am a man of the people, bred amongst them, and it has been the greatest joy of my life to have had some part in fighting the battles of the class from whom I am proud to have sprung.“

—  David Lloyd George Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1863 - 1945

Speech in Manchester (21 April 1908), quoted in Better Times: Speeches by the Right Hon. D. Lloyd George, M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910), p. 46.
Chancellor of the Exchequer

„I've found that people aren't really as different as they sometimes seem. We all have joy and tragedy in our lives. So it only follows that if I write something from my heart and stay true to myself, others will easily identify.“

—  Happy Rhodes American singer-songwriter 1965

"The Happy Rhodes Interview" in Homeground #48 (Summer 1993)
Context: I'm thrilled that people can get something out of my music. I have to attribute that to integrity and honesty. I've found that people aren't really as different as they sometimes seem. We all have joy and tragedy in our lives. So it only follows that if I write something from my heart and stay true to myself, others will easily identify.

„Grosser light vanishes into eternal rays
Of all-pervading Cosmic Joy.
From Joy we come,
For Joy we live,
In the sacred Joy we melt.“

—  Paramahansa Yogananda Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship 1893 - 1952

Quotes drawn from the poem "Samadhi"

„There never was a war that was
not inward; I must
fight till I conquered in myself what
causes war“

—  Marianne Moore American poet and writer 1887 - 1972

In Distrust of Merits
Poetry

„Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.“

—  John Locke English philosopher and physician 1632 - 1704

Source: Vegas Moon