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“We all suffer our causes yet not everyone calls our life a tragedy.”

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Author:Laura Chouette

“I don’t know how to end a war I was born into; how to end a conflict and a fight that I don’t understand even the people say I am on their side; What is the wrong one and how can I end this?”

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Author:Laura Chouette

“There exists a universal order that we each play a distinct role in carrying out. Light always struggles to emerge from darkness. Each of us is the bearer of our own lantern. We find ourselves when we realize our place in an interconnected world. The struggle to pierce the darkness that shrouds us from realizing a state of perceptive awareness is the biggest part of both our individual story and our communal storyline.”

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“I always knew the mountains would take something from me one day. I wrote about their fine lines, their graves, and their shades. Then, one day, I looked up upon the gray— it takes everything and then nothing, even if you offer them everything. You can’t survive it, you live with it— in small pieces, small steps, small moments. All along, it takes you, survives you— you’ll never understand it.”

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Author:Laura Chouette

“The ox was bad enough, Mina thought as she checked out the damage to her vegetables, yet now I have goats to torment me. However, if the goru was like the king, then the goats must be like the political parties, so maybe in the end her life won’t be so different after all? Yet she had to make sure that it would be different this time somehow, at least for Sidip’s sake, if for no other reason.”

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Book:To Revolt Is a People's Right

Source: To Revolt Is a People's Right

“We become numb ourselves while the world calls it a tragedy.”

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Author:Laura Chouette

“Poetry is enough for a soul in pain. Love would only heighten the senses and destroy the illusions of it.”

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Author:Laura Chouette

“Uneven ghosts pave the pathway of a sinner; Yet, I walk by alleys and chapels without looking up to saints.”

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Author:Laura Chouette

“I don't know how to balance my mental health needs with my obsessive need to please.”

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Book:Adelaide

Source: Adelaide

“You know, I always erase everything... And lately, my memory loss is erasing what time hasn't.”

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Author:Rolf van der Wind

“Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives.”

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Author:Hal Elrod

“I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have to shatter our complacency and become "active souls,"and be prepared to engage in aware - that personal struggle between our grief and our sorrow. But I don't think we have any choice.”

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Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

Source: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons

“When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time you get another perspective on the poem you're reciting.”

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Author:David Whyte

“(I want to) make good stories that have a redemptive message and allow people to dig into their own lives and personal struggles and go "Am I like this? Do I have these flaws too?" and open up a conversation.”

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Author:Drew Waters

“In my life I have had to work through problems of stigmatization and prejudice. When I discovered the power of the arts to express my pains and joys, it became clear to me that there would be no other way to work through the demons except to fully embrace the process of creation. The work was not personal therapy but had a connection to other peoples' realities. As I grow older and more mature, it becomes clearer to me that personal struggles and conflicts are connected with universal struggles and conflicts. It is this knowledge, ironically, that gives me the freedom to experiment in my work”