Quotes About Hardship

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I slowed my pace. Years of hauling water, wringing out clothes, scrubbing floors, emptying chamber pots, with no chance of beauty or color or light in my life, stretched before me like a landscape of flat land where, a long way off, the sea is visible but can never be reached.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

Hard times of any kind—financial, familial, or job-related—create more intense and often prolonged negative emotions that ultimately result in stress. In addition to the physical costs of stress, such as weight gain and heart disease, stress also taxes our mental resources.

Cold, truthful common sense was harder to like than warm, hopeful generosity.

They might not be beautiful, but they were certainly suffering.

that mean in terms of weekly income?

Sailors were as conservative as cats, as he knew very well: they would put up with incredible labour and hardship, to say nothing of danger, but it had to be what they were used to or they would grow brutish.

Life is brutal, and so are facts.

As Lizzie had seen so many times with victims, the harder your life had been, the harder it was to give yourself room for ethical choices. So were born cycles of abuse.

love, as their parents knew, was not enough. Hunger and poverty could never be reduced by love alone.

One obvious answer is that the risks and privations in Mexico are much worse that those endured in a border crossing.

It was a poor town—the meagerly stocked market was proof of that.

Transportation in China is always crowded; it is nearly always uncomfortable; it is often a struggle.

You can work hard here and still earn very little.

Here we have poor people, but poor because they have no opportunities. It's sad.

Many Americans were bewildered by having to accommodate themselves to the resettlement of Syrian, Somali, and Afghan refugees—their care and feeding—when many local communities were hard-up.

We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

Well, and every man has his troubles and I must make shift to live with mine as I can

But O-Lan returned to the beating of his clothes and when tears dropped slowly and heavily from her eyes she did not put up her hand to wipe them away; only she beat the more steadily with her wooden stick upon the clothes spread over the stone.

Day by day beneath the opulence of this city Wang Lung lived in the foundations of poverty upon which it was laid.

He had collected from every place where he had hid his little stores of gain and he had borrowed all he could, and he could not even have had this except by bitter, frugal living.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.