Kathy Valentine Quotes

I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

My life is a struggle.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath.

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

I don't want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.

The struggle I went through has value.

Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

It doesn't matter who you are: being human is being human. Everyone has days that are challenging.

It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Everybody has their struggles.

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

I would say that we all - in whatever world we're in, whatever your occupation is, we all have a path to walk. We all have struggles.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

I've been through hell not totally unscathed, but I came out not too bad.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it's a vibe.

I'm trying to show people that I'm a person, and I deal with the same things as you guys, and I'm trying to make the best of it.

People know my story - how I started like they did and that I struggled with things, like being a working mom. They ask me things they wouldn't ask anyone else.

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

You can't lead a true life without suffering

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.