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Quotes About Hardship

Jake would have done better to let them hang him," he said. "You know how he suffers when he has to work.
~ Larry McMurtry
It isn't the day you finally push the boulder up the hill and it stays. (Then what would you do?)
~ Larry Rosenberg
YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE WORST TO GET TO THE BEST
~ Laura Childs
La vida le había enseñado que la cosa no era tan fácil, que son pocos los que pasándose de listos logran realizar sus deseos a costa de lo que sea, y que obtener el derecho de determinar su propia vida le iba a costar más trabajo del que se imaginaba.
~ Laura Esquivel
Maybe it's true that shared trauma brings people closer together-a common hardship, a battle to survive-because when times are quiet people relax and go their own separate ways. They're lulled into believing they've got everything under control and don't need what they did before.
~ Laura Wiess
Life's a bitch," I said. "And then you die," Larry finished for me.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Maybe your son didn't get that job because he's not good enough. Or he's lazy. Or the other guy was better than him, no matter what his skin color. I think the white people who have been here for two hundred years are the ones pulling down the country. They don't know how to work — they've had it too easy
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
When I was little I had no idea what she'd been through. She used to say Affection is a sign of weakness which totally baffled me because she should be both affectionate and strong. I'd give anything to understand all of the layers of tragedy that forced her shell to become so hard.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
You been too strong," she said firmly. "I know about that. Strong starts out being the right thing. Your hands grow strong enough for your work. Your back strengthens under your burdens. Soon your mind becomes strongest of all; has to be to get through the hard days. " - Serafina Ashes: Seeds of America - Laurie Halse Anderson
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The world's a bastard. Life just happens to people.
~ Lawrence Block
Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.
~ Cole Porter
They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
~ Zhang Ziyi
i see tear drops flow from youre eyes and relise life is sometimes hard but crying is not something to be ashamed about
~ tv show kagal
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Is happiness found in the nest where there's no hardship? Or is it in the outer world with vast sky? When the time comes, what would you keep and what would you abandon?
~ Norn9 norn+nonet
Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that
~ Tom Izzo
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.
~ Justin Welby
All that was really there was still more misery -- oh yes! as much of that as you like.
~ zola emile ii
Lomhlaba Unzima, Lohmhlaba. This world is a harsh place, this world.
~ Zulu Proverb
Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.
~ zweig stefan iv
Labor is a blessing, toil is the misery of man.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Daily calorie consumption was more than halved, which meant that, on average, German adults lost 20 percent of their body weight during the war.
~ Adam Hochschild
What are your initial thoughts, Duffy?" he asked. "It was freezing out there, sir. Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, we had to eat the horses, we're lucky to be alive." "Your thoughts about the victim?
~ Adrian McKinty
The operators were bound together by what they were running from—poverty in all its forms, despair, hunger, decimated families—as well as what they hoped to gain. Their imaginations were filled with American treasures:
~ Adriana Trigiani