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“For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.”
― Hayley Williams

“I must go on living. And, though it
may be childish of me, I can't go on in
simple compliance. From now on I must
struggle with the world. I thought that
Mother might well be the last of those
who can end their lives beautifully and
sadly, struggling with no one, neither
hating nor betraying anyone. In the
world to come there will be no room for
such people. The dying are beautiful,
but to live, to survive �� those things
somehow seem hideous and
contaminated with blood.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.”
― Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man

“To be of the Earth is to know
the restlessness of being a seed
the darkness of being planted
the struggle toward the light
the pain of growth into the light
the joy of bursting and bearing fruit
the love of being food for someone
the scattering of your seeds
the decay of the seasons
the mystery of death and
the miracle of birth.”
― John Soos

“I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“I've figured out why they call it a trial.  Because you try all you can to pull through it. ”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“...Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart that breaks...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“You can't truly appreciate the top if you've never hit rock bottom.”
― Vanna B.

“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but because of the noble comradeship which binds all Legionaries in a sacred brotherhood of struggle.”
― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, For My Legionaries

“Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

“It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological concept, not a spiritual practice. Hope, I began to realize, was not a state of life. It was at best a gift of life.”
― Joan Chittister

“Will doesn't have to be struggle!”
― Tae Yun Kim, The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within

“I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.”
― Tom Conrad

“The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.”
― Joan Chittister

“كفاح لا ينقدم إلا قيد انملة،و العالم من حولنا يهدر كالإعصار”
― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love

“There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination.”
― Anthony Liccione

“In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE"... To whom?.. To where?... Where am I going to...?”
― Hiroko Sakai, "Rebirth"

“Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices I
had decided upon, there is always left a trace of envy
for those who have triumphed in the melancholy
struggle for literary supremacy”
― Paul Bourget

“The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion.”
― Hiroko Sakai

“Faith, is the road that goes straight past the gravel, and cloud-mesh dirt into a mirage, where still you believe to go straight, and when you finally catch up with it, it ends at a lake where you stretch your eyes across, but unable to glimpse the other side- so you jump in and swim, gliding each stroke with tiredness and swallow of water, you reach the end, put a hand out and pull yourself up on concrete, where the same road continues straight into another blue-white blur.”
― Anthony Liccione

“To conclude this personal note, I, William Joyce, will merely say that I left England because I would not fight for Jewry against the Führer and National Socialism, and because I believe most ardently, as I do today, that victory and a perpetuation of the old system would be an incomparably greater evil for [England] than defeat coupled with a possibility of building something new, something really national, something truly socialist.”
― Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce)