Quotes About Struggles

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem.

If you go about trying to please everyone, there's going to be endless struggles.

Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.

When times are good, we have tunes to dance to; when times are tough, we're supposed to talk about it. That's country music.

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

Family things are always tough, and they're always tough to address, let alone on a TV show.

I went through a phase when I was 13 or 14: I would tweet emo things about my feelings and boys who didn't like me and mean girls in school.

I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.

The twenties are a deceptively challenging-slash-painful time. I'm just glad to be out of that phase.

You don't need a murder on a Martian colony. What is more dramatic than love? There's highs and lows, especially in your twenties, when it completely takes you over.

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife, as a lover, as a daughter.

I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.

God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons he give us.

Of course, the odds have not been very dependable of late.

How did my relatively inexperienced dating life suddenly become so complicated?

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

The purpose of my songwriting is to put the things I have been through in a song in order to help others who may be in a similar situation.

Songwriting is writing about the human experience.

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.