Its root is indeed in dirt and mud, but its flowers still send forth grace and perfume." Take again life's struggles and conflicts.

There are, in the experience of each one, obstacles, hindrances, and difficulties, which make it hard to live successfully.

Every one has to move onward and upward through ranks of resistances.

This is true of physical life.
Every baby that is born begins at once a struggle for existence.

To be victorious and live, or to succumb and die?
is the question of every cradle, and only half the babies born reach their teens.