Margaret Fuller Quotes

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.

That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.

Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

Do not forget: seek to win all your battles, including those you fight against yourself. Do not fear the scars. Do not be afraid of victory.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.

It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.

Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems, who may be alienated from many aspects of the self-but who is still fighting, still struggling, still striving to find the path to a fulfilling existence, moved by the wisdom of knowing, "I am more than my problems."