There is no such thing as a life without struggle. . . . There is no one who does not have to choose sometime, some way between giving up and growing stronger. There is no one who has not known what it is to lose in the game of life. . . . The essence of struggle is the decision to become new rather than simply to become older. . . . No one comes out of the struggle, out of suffering the same person they were when they went in. Some come out worse, soured on life. Others come out stronger and wiser.
— Joan Chittister, Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope