Quotes About Hardship

because it was a total, prime-of-life love. The kind that could only be possible in someone who was going to die at some point in the future, and also someone who had lived enough to know that loving and being loved back was a hard thing to get right, but when you managed it, you could see forever.

On both sides of her family there had been an unspoken belief that life was meant to fuck you over.

nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

The food is awful," Jan wrote, "and cooked in such a way that no civilized white man can stand it for more than a week or two … Almost all the food is fried. They feed us fried green bananas, boiled rice, and foul-smelling salt fish. It rains so much that honest to goodness my hat is getting mouldy on my head… I haven't had on a pair of dry shoes in weeks.

The task of the 9.9 percent is to lubricate the machinery that administers the pain—and then to suggest by example that the 90 percent have a shot at the joining them in a life of ease, if only they would work just a little harder.

for every one to reach the mountain top of his or her desire its really a hustle and hard work

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost.

Mam) ignorant as a thistle, married to a drunk and pushing out baby after baby, each of which had to be clothed and fed until it grew up and left, or died.

oh boo hoo , everyone's life was hard, and if you'd survived the hardship, why write about it? Survival itself was enough.

No hay nada que merezca la pena y sea fácil a la vez.

For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!

How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!

Misfortune is mostly an awkwardness!

Smooth roads are boring; hard roads are hurting! Through boredom, you learn nothing and you get nothing; through hurt, you learn many things and you get wisdom! Never afraid of hard roads and always prefer them!

My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?Another day older and deeper in debt.Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't goI owe my soul to the company store.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.

fought, it was usually more trouble than it was

the human mind is alike in every race and sect of people: when the danger isn't close enough, or when enough generations have passed so that the reality of hardship and persecution ceases to be real, the threats fade. They take on the quality of interesting fiction.

Either we die here in the snow or we die fighting. I prefer the hard way.

?air R. M. Rilke modern ça??n gittikçe daha az çaba talep edece?ini anlam??t?: "?nsanlar her soruna kolay çözüm, hem de kolay?n en kolay?n? ar?yorlar. Ama zor olana tutunmam?z gerekti?i gayet aç?k; her canl? yarat?k zora s?ms?k? tutunur.

Now looking across my latte at this confident smiling Starbucks employee I felt sorry for myself. She seemed carefree to me so young so full of options. Later I would learn that she had seen more hardship in her life than I could conceive of having seen in three lifetimes.