"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together."

Struggle, Self, Happiness, Life

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"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together."

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"The struggle is never easy to finding what is lost and to gain the best of what is to come without sweat."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Every goal has a road block, that is our fear of failure."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"If you want relief from pain just strive to touch more of every part of life."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light."

John Milton, English Poet

Struggle, Perseverance, Hardship, Hope

"What worried him worst at the moment - for it is often little things that are hardest to stand - was that his lip was bleeding where they had hit him and he couldn't wipe the little trickle of blood away although it tickled him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"People simply say "Struggles bring you success, but they do not understand that those struggles certainly fuck us too."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it and framed a humbler supplication. For change, stimulus. That petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space. "Then," I cried, half desperate, "grant me at least a new servitude!"

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest."

Emotion

"Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone ? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"

Emotion

"I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid."

Emotion

"They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle."

Philosophy

"When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money."

History

"If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down."

Love

"When a man talks from the heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry."

Expression

"..holding a book but reading the empty spaces."

Literature

"Hello!" He said hello and then said, "What are you up to now?" "I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. "I don't think I'd like that," he said. "You might if you tried." "I never have." She licked her lips. "Rain even tastes good." "What do you do, go around trying everything once?" he asked. "Sometimes twice."

Behavior

"The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it."

Philosophy