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Struggle, challenges and difficulties

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. Steve Jobs

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. Sun-tzu

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Sun-tzu

I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution. Shaquille O'Neal

Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die. anonymous

When written in Chinese, the word "Crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. John F. Kennedy

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford

Tending the garden is a relaxing pastime, but it does not prepare one for the inevitable battles of life. It is easy to be calm in a serene setting.
To be calm and serene when under attack is much more difficult; therefore, I tell you that it is far better to be a warrior tending his garden rather than a gardener at war. Chinese Proverb

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. Patti Smith

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. Bernard M. Baruch

The problem with reading: you always have to pick up again at the very thing that made you stop reading the day before. Nicholson Baker

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. Henry Rollins

For the eclipse tonite...
Let go of old wounds
So the new ones don't hurt as much. Chan Marshall (Cat Power)

I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly. Stephenie Meyer

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars. Stephenie Meyer

Lean on principles, one day they 'll end up giving way. Oscar Wilde

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question. Rainer Maria Rilke

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. Frances Hodgson Burnett

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