Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world

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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go. - Golda Meir

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

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Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within us we never knew we had. Navigating through a difficult episode not only shows us that inner strength is there but convinces us it will always be there to serve us in the future. Overcoming gives us an assurance of personal confidence and value that far exceeds what we thought we possessed before our struggles began. — Dennis Wholey

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What we know matters but who we are matters more. ― Brené Brown

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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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Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.

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

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. _ George A. Sheehan

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