"I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell."

Struggle, Day, Feeling, Hell, Pain

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"I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell."

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"But what about me? I suffer, but still, I don't live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort of phantom in life who has lost all beginning and end, and who has even forgotten his own name. You are laughing- no, you are not laughing, you are angry again. You are forever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"He who hates easiness in life will always find a though mountain to climb!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities."

Norman Vincent Peale, American Clergyman

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"Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery, thine attempts to plume thyself and make thyself fit for Jesus are all vanity."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"There is joy at the end of every struggle we face. But you can never cross over and get there with the boats of complains. Complainer is only an explainer of pain! Take action!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"I'm Bipolar with PTSD there's no shortage of pain inside of me."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Struggle, Pain, Illness, Mental

"Achieving success is a challenge but so is struggling so you may as well choose success."

Rob Liano, American Author

Struggle, Success, Choice, Ambition

"Discouragement is root of distress."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Struggle, Discouragement, Root, Distress, Suffering

"The demons are not easily dispatched, instead attaching themselves to otherwise beautiful things, a favorite food or a love note left for you, to see how you react when they rear up."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell."

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