Seneca the Younger Quotes

To the stars through thorns.

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

I've been through worst, seen worst.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

I've been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn't have to go through.

I've known struggle.

Everyone has faced something; some struggles are more heroic than others.

Everyone has some sort of struggle.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

My life is a struggle.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.