Struggle Quotes

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

Thomas Mann

"When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself."

Deepak Chopra

"I’m hard to love, but I love hard, like my heart is the sun yearning to tan your naked body. I promise I won’t burn you."

Jarod Kintz

"You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for."

Deb Caletti

"Today we’re living in an anti-Waldo world, where you don’t want to blend in and have people struggle to find you. You want your personal brand to stand out like you’re wearing a red and white sweater, and everyone else has on black."

Jarod Kintz

"You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push."

Carrie Ryan

"You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun."

Shaun Hick

"Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose."

Sarah Dessen

"You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle."

Julien Smith

"Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?"

Tom Stoppard

"My name is a half an hour early, but my body is on time."

Jarod Kintz

"Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love."

Laura Kasischke

"You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire."

Leymah Gbowee

"The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!"

T.F. Hodge

"Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding."

Jared Diamond

"What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?"

Jerome

"We all have value; our unique gifts are needed in this time and place, and we should never forget this in times of struggle and hardship."

Russell Eric Dobda

"One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything."

Beverly Donofrio

"A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones"

Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

"Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes."

Surgeo Bell

"It's ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you're the one that has the gun."

Surgeo Bell

"Even in hardship, God’s goodness prevails."

Todd Stocker, REFINED: Turning Pain into Purpose

"Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time."

Allan Wolf, The Watch That Ends the Night

"If you're struggling today, remember that life is worth living and believe that the best is yet to come. Remember that you are loved, you matter, and never forget that there is always hope."

Germany Kent

"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."

Slavoj Žižek

"I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it."

Emma Goldman, Living My Life

"The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine."

Charlotte Eriksson

"You're not defeated when you lose a battle.You are defeated when you give up the struggle"

Mouloud Benzadi

"Satan is a liar. He wants to steal our joy and replace it with hopelessness. When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us.Meese encouraged me by reminding me of the real reason we have for fully living this life. It's to give everything we have to God--even the heartbreaks and pain. God is our reason to live."

Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

"The people who had been recognized for making original contributions shared many more stories that started negatively but surged upward: they struggled early and triumphed later. Despite being confronted with more negative events, they reported greater satisfaction with their lives and a stronger sense of purpose."

Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

"Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive"

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive"

Aaron Lauritsen

"The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite."

Aaron Lauritsen

"There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"There is no such thing as loving a child too much."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it's the day to day grind of getting them that defines the laugh lines etched until the end of time. Enjoy each moment along the way"

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

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