“I am thankful for my struggle because without it, I wouldn’t have stumbled upon my strength.”— ALEXANDRA ELLE, goodreads.com
“Nobody’s lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen - because you love each other.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”— Fred Rogers, amazon.com
“I hope that I’m always struggling, really. You develop when you’re struggling. When you’re struggling, you get stronger.”— Andrew Garfield, mtv.com
“I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.”— Nikos Kazantzakis, amazon.com
“We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Life isn’t meant to exist in a narrow color spectrum of perpetual happiness. That’s a movie. It’s not reality. Experience all your vivid, fiery, watery emotions. Give yourself permission to be full bodied. You’re peeling. Revealing. It’s a messy, magnificent process.”— Kris Carr, kriscarr.com
“We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there’s a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.”— Harvey Keitel, brainyquote.com
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”— Sigmund Freud, goodreads.com
“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”— Thomas Merton, amazon.com
“That trouble is not going to stop you. It’s going to move you to a level of your destiny you could have never experienced without it.”— Joel Osteen, sermonly.com
“You may not like the trouble, you’re uncomfortable, it’s not fair, but God knows what he’s doing. That trouble is transportation.”— Joel Osteen, sermonly.com
“Ruptures are difficult, because of the suffering caused by the removal of a bond. But in its place, we soon receive a boost.”— Frederic Gros, amazon.com