Struggle Quotes

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Yeah, my life a bitch, but you know nothing 'bout her

is this all what it lead up to? come out the gate rowdy and fightin’….and then gain spiritual enlightenment down the line?

It is amazing the difference it makes sometimes when someone just reaches into the heart of your experience and names it, and sits there with you in it.

It starts out and he says 'I'm an artist.' At the end it says 'I'm a good artist.' We were just adding one more word, but it's a very powerful word. The artist has accomplished something. You may struggle through it. There might be the unhappy moments which are 'I'm not good enough. I can't do it.' Stick with it. But at the same time don't force yourself too much.

As a blacksmith uses heat to temper steel, so should a trial by fire strengthen one’s mettle.

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.

It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.

We think that if we had every comfort available to us, we’d be happy. We equate comfort with happiness. And now we’re so comfortable we’re miserable. There’s no struggle in our lives. No sense of adventure. What I’ve found is that I’m never more alive than when I’m pushing and I’m in pain, and I’m struggling for high achievement, and in that struggle I think there’s a magic.

Your tears are my prayers.

Your tears are my prayers.

If you only knew what the future holds.
After a hurricane comes a rainbow.

If you only knew what the future holds.
After a hurricane comes a rainbow.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong - or absolutely right.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.