We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.

~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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We seldom question the purpose of life when our world is sunny and bright. This question tends to hide itself during pleasant sailing, only rearing its face during the deepest and darkest travails, when the gales of storm weather have fallen.

~ Donald L. Hicks

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...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.

~ Seneca

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The life of hero is the tale of a person overcoming personal hardship and obstacles while striving to achieve an exultant victory that voices repressed citizens’ ecstatic thoughts and dreams.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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...the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round in rags of our virtues, and regarding others through the mist of our self-sufficiency, and persuaded of our universal impeccability, do not understand this.

~ Maxim Gorky

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Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

~ Tahir Shah

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Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.

~ Margaret Mitchell

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I’ve felt that I was trying to row a heavily loaded boat in a storm. I’ve had so much trouble just trying to keep afloat that I couldn’t be bothered about things that didn’t matter, things I could part with easily and not miss, like good manners and--well, things like that. I’ve been too afraid my boat would be swamped and so I’ve dumped overboard the things that seemed least important.

~ Margaret Mitchell

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But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep in him, beneath his memory, was the knowledge of hardship and hunger and endurance and pain.

~ John Williams

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Have you considered that some of your greatest heartaches and hardships might actually be the best things that ever happened to you in the long run?

~ Tim Hiller

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Under every layer of pain, another layer of recovery lies in wait, the sweet, forever surprising truth of endurance.

~ Carrie Snyder

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Living life without hardships is simply not living at all.

~ Chris Imholte

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It's in the tension that the music is made.

~ Rebekah Lyons

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To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

~ Henri Nouwen

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There is no success without hardship.

~ Sophocles

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