Audre Lorde Quotes

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

Life is not always easy. And that is a major reason why it is so precious. Many of life's best rewards are possible only because you must work your way through difficult challenges to get to them. If everything in life were easy, there would be no opportunity for real fulfillment.

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

The best way out is always through.

To the stars through thorns.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Everybody has adversity in their lives and we all have to find ways of overcoming them. You've got to soldier on, make the best of it, look for the positive in everything.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

Do not feel discouraged by all the challenges and hardships you might face. I ask you not to forget that, like those who came here before you, you bring many gifts to this new nation of yours.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

View the events you consider obstacles as perfect opportunities to test your resolve and find your purpose.

In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.

Life always has a bit of a challenge in front of you, and that's what makes you fight for it.