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• All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Block, Selfish

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• The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Crazy, Adversity

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• There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Existentialism, Myth Of Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.73, Vintage

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• Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  "Nobody Knows My Name". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Success, Inspiration, Striving To Be The Best

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Motivational, Dream, Real

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• The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.

  Pema Chodron

  Happiness, Letting Go, Thinking

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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• Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

  Albert Einstein

  Strength, Animal, Men

  Joseph Eger, Albert Einstein (2005). “Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change”, Tarcher

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• Stress is a choice. Do you buy that? Some people have a hard time with the idea. Yes, bad things happen: The economy sours, our business struggles, the stock market tumbles, jobs are lost, people around us don't follow through, deadlines are missed, projects fail, good people leave. Life is full of these. But still, stress is a choice because whatever the 'trigger event,' we always choose our own response. We choose to react angrily. We choose to stuff our emotions and keep quiet. We choose to worry. Stress is a choice.

  John G. Miller

  Jobs, Stress, Hard Times

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• The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will be ours if we continue our efforts courageously, even when at times they appear futile.

  Boniface Wimmer

  Men, Effort, Victory

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• The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Giving Up, Real, Surrender

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• 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.

  Samuel Smiles

  Life, Success, Adversity

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.312

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• 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

  Relationship, Weakness, Faults

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “Path To Love: Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Love You Need”, p.4, Random House

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• Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Education, Effort, Lessons

  Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.151, John Wiley and Sons

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• Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

  Edmund Burke

  Honesty, Integrity, War

  Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) See Edmund Burke 28; Mill 18

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• If there's no struggle, there's no progress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Math, Progress, Ifs

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• I find my own pain and others' difficult to tolerate, so I always want to try to shift things so they'll be better. But in doing that, if I am coming from a place of ego, I often cause harm. So it's a struggle for me to set my ego outside and find a softer and more compassionate way of approaching things.

  Danny Boyle

  Pain, Ego, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Birthday, Time, Regret

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 3, ch. 1

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• 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

  Understanding, Rewards, Way

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• It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn't mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Letting Go, Mean, Trying

  Iyanla Vanzant (1998). “Faith in the Valley: Lessons for Women on the Journey to Peace”, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the most moving part of my trip [to Africa] so far was seeing 92-year-old Nelson Mandela, and just thinking about his life. This man has lived through a struggle that few nations have known.

  Michelle Obama

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Michelle Obama from Jun 24, 2011

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• It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

  Tupac Shakur

  Men, Judging, Black

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Simplicity, Simple Life

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