Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.- Michael Jordan

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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Sometimes you just have to jump in a mud puddle because it's there. Never get so old that you forget about having fun. ― Tom Giaquinto

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You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

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In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

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The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go. ― Shannon L. Alder

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The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow. _ Robert Tew

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