Edwidge Danticat Quotes

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

Struggle is part of the journey.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

To the stars through thorns.

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.

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.

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

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

The best way out is always through.

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

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

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

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.