Quotes About Hardship

I'm forged hard out of pieces, like a bar of solid steel. There's nothing soft left. I'm too broken to be broken anymore.

Life's not all beer and skittles

Nothing I could say or do would help her. Life is hard in a world gone wrong.

one of those doctors who work for nothing in countries that are so poor the people have no money, so they trade with one another using bricks of dry animal dung they can burn to heat their hovels and a few diseased chickens and maybe some edible tubers that they dig out of the floor of a snake-infested jungle

no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

I was born under a glass heel, and have always lived there,'" Tim quoted.

Stormy believed that we are in this boot camp to learn, that if we don't persevere through all this world's obstacles and all its wounds, we won't earn our next life of great adventure. To be with her again, I will have the perseverance of a bulldog, but it seems to me that the training is unnecessarily hard.

The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took

We all have our crosses to bear.

All the stuff our fathers took for granted as long as you worked hard, the great safety net and the fair wage and the gold watch at the end of it all? That's all gone around here, my friend.

Teddy wished that his mother were still alive so she could teach her grandkids you had to get hard, strong. The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily too. Perhaps we are just more alive. Yet as we discover more joy, we can face suffering in a way that ennobles rather than embitters. We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.

But the years between now and then had been hard ones—and compassion was a soft emotion, easily eroded by circumstance.

And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed.

risings in two days were taking their toll.

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It was like being caught in a meat grinder; a brief moment of total chaos, punctuated by random hard blows to the body and the sensation of being suffocated in a large, reeking hairy blanket.

The American dream is under assault.

My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.

My dad would much rather work a couple jobs than be on government assistance.

People assume that acting is an easy job. When you actually do it, you know how hard that is.

A lot of athletes are first-generation money.

The more you do, the more attrition you experience.