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Quotes about Struggle

Picking up the pieces of a shattered dream is better than having no pieces to pick up at all.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Spiritual highs help you overcome emotional lows.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
— Thomas Jefferson
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.
— Thomas Jefferson
Know well that the enemy laboureth in all wise to stay thy desire in good and to make thee void of all good exercise.
— Thomas a Kempis
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
— Thomas Merton
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
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
— Thomas Paine
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem lightly.
— Thomas Paine
These are the times that try men's souls...yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives every thing value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.
— Thomas Paine
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind!
— Thomas Paine