struggles

...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...

You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.

You necessarily have to be lost, before you__e found.

I am a great warrior.

Sometimes, God drives us to Prayer and Scripture not for answers to the struggles, but for anchors in the storms.

REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESSBefore you were born,And were still too tiny forThe human eye to see,You won the race for lifeFrom among 250 million competitors.And yet,How fast you have forgottenYour strength,When your very existenceIs proof of your greatness.You were born a winner,A warrior,One who defied the oddsBy surviving the most gruesomeBattle of them all.And now that you are a giant,Why do you even doubt victoryAgainst smaller numbers,And wider margins?The only walls that exist,Are those you have placed in your mind.And whatever obstacles you conceive,Exist only because you have forgottenWhat you have alreadyAchieved.Poetry by Suzy Kassem

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

In the mornings, my pain was magnified by about a thousand. In the morning there weren__ only those sad facts about my life. Now there was also the additional fact that I was a pile of shit.

I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in __ause I was pretty in all kinds of colors but way too soon I stood on his table sad and dried up. I forgot to nourish myself and the sun never shone from my sky.

Every struggle in your past has shaped you into the person you are today. Take God's hand and step into your future without fear.

I think for a time I was unsure what love meant. And now at least I AM sure that a very big part of it involves caring about someone SO much, that you find yourself using Your energy to make their life the BEST it can possibly be. And in turn they do the same for you. Until you both are strong enough to overcome whatever struggles you might have battled on your own, and also struggles you still have yet to face.

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Life itself has an incomparable ability to test your wits that you won__ require anything extra or don__ have to go anywhere outside your space to get them tested. _ Aniruddha.

If you feel like a nearly-drowned rat that__ been dragged through the mud, all twisted up inside your mother__ borrowed, prized quilt, having been tossed about by gale force winds that managed to entangle you in barbed wire one-thousand miles from your goal in the middle of a hot, barren nowhere void of any basic necessities__hen congratulations! You__e no observer but an actual participant in the game of life! Stand up and keep living.

If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.

Without struggles, success would be meaningless.

The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don´t give up.

Our sufferings produce strength of spirit.