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Quotes About Struggle

We are pushed towards eternal silence from the moment we are born. So when sadness tries to stifle us, we must not give in. We must keep whispering.
~ Shaun Hick
... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.
~ Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue
The writer's life is frightful. I have experienced deep dispair, mental ill and attempt of suicide.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm not sure what happened to me over the last few days. I lost myself, I think. I sank down into a hole for a while. They're tricky things, holes. You don't know you're in one until you get out.
~ Kevin Brooks
Lord, to the degree I don't want to do this, bless me.
~ Luci Swindoll
When we go for the battle, the burning flames of fire, light will consume the darkness.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The demons you need to get rid of are inside. But they seem out there because you left the window open.
~ Gloria D. Gonsalves
True enough. I say this all the time.Trez looked at his hands. "I didn't ask for this.""No one asks for life." The executioner hiked iAm's body up higher. "And sometimes they do not ask for death...
~ J.R. Ward, The Shadows
There is deep darkness before the dawn of light.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Fight the darkness. Fight for the light.
~ A.D. Posey
There's the light. There's the dark. And there's that bit in between... where you're trying to find the switch.Think about where you are.
~ Isis Sky
In great troubles, we learn to trust in God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
People who believed in God today will doubt him tomorrow and those who doubted him today will believe in him tomorrow because believing in someone else doesn't work. Believe in yourself.
~ Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody
Sometimes u have to hurt your loved ones just because you don't want to hurt yourself, it's like putting a step backward to jump forward ..
~ jagvir ji
There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.
~ Nina LaCour, We Are Okay
In order to attain extraordinary greatness, first you need to be drowned in the deepest fathoms of helplessness, misery and heartache.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Life was never easy, but I always made it as easy as it can be.
~ Adel Abouhana
If I could just capture each memory in a bottle the maybe you people would understand how much I've suffered, how much I've been through, but most importantly how far I have come.
~ Tommy Tran
In poverty a man is alone. But with prosperity, He has many friends.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.
~ Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt
You're allowed to be sad and angry. You're not allowed to give up.
~ Karen Salmansohn
If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.
~ James W. Douglass
What is unrecognized about JFK's presidency, which then makes his assas­sination a false mystery, is that he was locked in a struggle with his national security state. That state had higher values than obedience to the orders of a president who wanted peace.
~ James W. Douglass
When we are grasped by the vision of a center of value and power more luminous, more inclusive and more true than that to which we are devoted, we initially experience the new as the enemy or the slayer - that which destroys our "god." Alfred North Whitehead wrote, "Religion is the transition from God the Void to God the Enemy, and from God the Enemy to God the Companion." Only with death of our previous image can a new and more adequate one arise.
~ James W. Fowler