“Nitimur in vetitum" -- "We strive after the forbidden”
“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”
“Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.”
“Scripture speaks of a holiness which we have in Christ before God and a holiness which we must strive after.”
“Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference,ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your own being.”
“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?”