1. "You can be doing great for months, maybe even years, and then boom, something happens, something triggers an episode. Then your life spirals into one big tornado of emotions that has swept you up right out from under yourself, and you lose control of everything, and you just spin around and around inside a dark, twisty, cloud, while everything flies out of control."
- Emma Thomas
2. "Support is the number one thing when it comes to fighting a mental illness. And the ones who have walked in the same shoes as you are the very best support system. There is no stigma in this group. There is no judging. We aren’t here to judge. We are here to understand and to let you know you aren’t alone in whatever battle you are facing. And that is why we started this group called You Matter."
- Emma Thomas
3. "That’s the problem with people who don’t have to work for things. They don’t know how to work for things."
- Taylor Jenkins Reid
4. "Some people are silently struggling with burdens that would break our backs."
- Wayne Gerard Trotman
5. "The tragedy of life is -
that everything falls for it.”
- Laura Chouette
6. "Your struggle is my struggle."
- Abhijit Naskar
7. "Don't look for the hard answer when the answer is simple."
- Linda Sachs
8. "No Struggle No Life (The Sonnet)
Ain't no life without struggle,
Ain't no heart without heartbreak.
Ain't no destination without the journey,
Ain't no courage without some dread.
Ain't no clarity without some confusion,
Ain't no serenity without suffering.
Ain't no contentment without disappointment,
Ain't no resilience without failing.
Ain't no mindfulness without mindlessness,
Ain't no uplift without some devastation.
Ain't no knowledge without ignorance,
Ain't no salvation without self-annihilation.
Ain't no I without the Us, without the We.
Ain't no We, unless the norm is nonbinary."
- Abhijit Naskar
9. "I have to trust that when I walk through any battle, it's for a greater purpose. And the other side is going to be so great that God chose to allow me to walk through it. God is good. Our stories are good. And if they ain't good yet, then we still can't give up, because our stories ain't over. And that is a win.
Maybe you struggle with fearful thoughts. I'm here to tell you there can be victory. You don't have to live in fear. You don't have to let those fears control you. Find someone you can turn to for help. Root out those negative thoughts before they go deep. There can be joy on the other side of your fears. I know, because I've experienced it."
- Brooke Tilghman
10. "In any struggle, the battles of life are fought and won in our minds."
- Dr. Lucas
11. "Yes, we get knocked around, yes life doesn't always turn out as we planned it, but as people of faith, we get up again. We see the sunrise again and again and we put one foot in front of the other and meet our destiny. But we do this with the help of loved ones, friends, and strangers."
- Stacy Thowe
12. "I have bipolar 2 disorder, anxiety disorder, and ADHD. I take my medications every day. I go to therapy every week. I hope, one day, I can be on the other side of therapy - you know, like the one who gets to write stuff down and shakes her head and listens."
- Emma Thomas
13. "You can’t solve anyone else’s life for them. But then, if you see someone struggling with a heavy load, isn’t it forbidden to walk on without helping them?"
- Naomi Alderman
14. "Some people swim as fast as they can. Faster than most. They can never stop and rest for long, and they never reach their destination, for they are constantly swimming upstream. But eventually they become strong, in their own way."
- Robert Black
15. "Every ocean wave is a pirate; it attacks the land and it tries to drag the land into the ocean! Life is nothing but a struggle between the looter and the looted!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
16. "You've never lived if you've never wanted to die."
- Saim .A. Cheeda
17. "Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible."
- Mao Zedong
18. "You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging."
- Brene Brown
19. "There is scarcely any passion without struggle."
- Albert Camus
- Caterina Fake
21. "Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle."
- Wilma Rudolph
22. "Nothing is given to man on earth – struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen."
- Andrew Bernstein
23. "The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. – Epictetus“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
- Frederick Douglass
24."The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
- Helen Keller
25. "My beliefs are that good people who work hard get their rewards. There will be struggle at times and hurdles along the way – life throws up all sorts – but in the end, you will prevail if you stick to the right path."
- Moeen Ali
26. "All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."
- Pope Paul VI
27. "Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
- Orison Swett Marden
28. "I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it."
- Conor McGregor
29. "Maybe the truth was, it shouldn’t be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something’s difficult to come by, you’ll do that much more to make sure it’s even harder–if not impossible–to lose."
- Sarah Dessen
30. "The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there’s a story of a personal struggle."
- Adrienne C. Moore
31. "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
- Rudyard Kipling
32. "The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths."
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
33. "It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it."
- Maya Angelou
34. "The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity – these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis."
Aga Khan IV“It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.”
- Cesar Chavez
36. "The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."
- Samuel Smiles
37. "No matter what struggles I come across, I will keep going, because I have the will and strength to overcome it all. All my greatest accomplishments, I once thought I would never achieve, but I keep on succeeding every challenge that faces me. No matter what is beyond my control, nothing will ever make me less than a woman. I am and will always be a powerful woman."
- Victoria Enriquez
38. "Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit."
- Napoleon Hill
39. "Don’t compare your struggles to anyone else’s. Don’t get discouraged by the success of others. Make your own path and never give up."
- MJ Korvan
40. "People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living their lives. But often times, when we are in struggle, we are seeking to be supported, not solved."
- Jaeda DeWalt
41. "He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself."
- Joseph Conrad
42. "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
- Edmund Burke
43. "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
- Albert Camus
44. "Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for."
- Marian Wright Edelman
45. "Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.
- Coretta Scott King
46. "Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest."
- Matthew Shultz
47. "She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life."
- Jonathan Safran Foer
48. "It’s not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it’s a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between."
- Sara Evans
49. "Don’t struggle about the struggle. In other words, life’s full of ups and downs. So if you’re struggling, don’t worry, everyone else has or will at some point."
- Sean Covey
50. "The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension… Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence."
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
51. "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
52. "When I am struggling with my life I look up towards the sky and say; Lord you take over."
- Joan Disantis
53. "All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."
- Pope Paul VI
54. "Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It’s a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other."
- Eric Burdon
55. "Look at my success. I didn’t achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years’ struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement."
- Mo Farah
56. "Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines."
- Leroy Satchel Paige
57. "We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future."
- Steve Maraboli
58. "The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle."
- Swami Sivananda
59. "In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."
-Albert Bandura
60. "If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for."
- Amit Kalantri
61. "A nagging spouse is like the drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet; You can’t turn it off, and you can’t get away from it."
- Proverbs 27:15-16 MSG
62. "If you love somebody, let them go, for they will return, they were always yours. If they don’t they never were."
- Kahlil Gibran
63. "I struggle with insecurities. I struggle with forgiveness. I struggle with letting someone go that did me dirty without vengeance, which is an evil thing."
- Jessie Reyez
64. "Sometimes we can feel like we are not good enough, but it is important to remember that we have nothing to prove to others. Love and respect yourself each and every day."
- Lisa Lieberman-Wang
65. "When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself."
- Deepak Chopra
66. "Behind every happy couple lies two people who have fought hard to overcome all obstacles and interferences to be that way. Why? Because it’s what they wanted."
- Kim George
67. "The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths."
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
68. "Together we have traveled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression."
- Thabo Mbeki
69. "When everything seems to be against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
- Henry Ford
70. "Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it."
- William Durant
71. "Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed."
- Abraham Lincoln
72. "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
- David Brinkley
- Nicole Reed
73. "No matter what struggles I come across, I will keep going, because I have the will and strength to overcome it all. All my greatest accomplishments, I once thought I would never achieve, but I keep on succeeding every challenge that faces me. No matter what is beyond my control, nothing will ever make me less than a woman. I am and will always be a powerful woman."
- Victoria Enriquez
74. "Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness."
- Susan Gale
75. "Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature."
- Manoj Bajpayee
76. "The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."
- Jodi Picoult
77. "You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong."
- Margaret George
78. "No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength - if we have the virtue of resilience."
- Eric Greitens
79. "Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."
- Henry Ward Beecher
80. "Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason."
- Andrew Solomon
81. "One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered."
- Michael J. Fox
82. "Successful people demonstrate their resilience through their dedication to making progress every day, even if that progress is marginal."
- Jonathan Mills
83. "Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive."
- Jean Chatzky
- Thomas Paine
85. "Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings…it’s something we make inside ourselves."
- Corrie ten Boom
86. "It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment."
- Bram Stoker
87. "I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person."
- Rita Mero
88. "There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster."
- 14th Dalai Lama
89. "Like tiny seeds with potent power to push through tough ground and become mighty trees, we hold innate reserves of unimaginable strength. We are resilient."
- Catherine DeVrye
90. "And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear."
- Paulo Coelho