#Struggle

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

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

"There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists."

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"In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure."

"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."

"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!"

"There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives."

"I will be stronger than my sadness."

"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."

"I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days."

"Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle."

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

"Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be."

"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."

"Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love."

"Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable."

"You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging."

"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."

"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."