One with great successes has had equally great hardships.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”[Meditations Divine and Moral]

We all make mistakes. It is important to learn from them and just as important to know when to move on.

He could feel himself gliding down like the sail of a weightless craft, forever plunging into the great beyond below where mermaids sing and summon their lovers home, further down into the depths of some...

I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I’ve only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a “serious” novel.

You don’t fight the battles you know you will win, its the ones that everyone says you will lose.

We seldom question the purpose of life when our world is sunny and bright. This question tends to hide itself during pleasant sailing, only rearing its face during the deepest and darkest travails, when the...

If you take a hard look at the people in your life, you may be blown away by how many explorers and survivalists surround you. Everyday, I’m amazed by the number of people I meet,...

Even in hardship, God’s goodness prevails.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

We can make the best of any situation with positive outlook.

No one is without troubles, without personal hardships and genuine challenges. That fact may not be obvious because most people don’t advertise their woes and heartaches. But nobody, not even the purest heart, escapes life...

We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I’m stronger than you think, you’d be surprised.

Scars prove that you’re still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving.

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don’t have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It’s not a good arrangement....

In league with being graced by greatness, prepare to be greeted, by all that is beneath you.

you must never blame other people for what you Going through because it will teach you a lesson and that time you have to be gratefull

Journal writing Helps Us Heal. That’s one of the therapeutic methods to helping us cope with hardship or painful situations in our lives. Writing in a journal allows us to make sense of things and...

Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don’t even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving.

Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.

Endurance-Suppression of the pain. The pain is severe at threshold. After the threshold, capacity is built to sustain the pain. The pain is lessen when the strength of might is achieved. Mankind can endure all...

There are many who don’t wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don’t wish to wake for the same fear.

Tell The Truth , and Shame The Devil.

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.”This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task...

Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christians, with less façade and more foundation. Catastrophe will divide them from the world, force them to declare their basic...

I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood.

Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to...

Living life without hardships is simply not living at all.

He lived through the times when Darkness had already swallowed him, and his last, useless convulsions were mistaken with fight. Unwarily, he found himself lying down, senseless as a fly caught in the net of...

I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow.

If you can endure something unpleasant, then you will overcome it.

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It’s as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking...

Priority shouldn’t be set within your interest but, must be set along the necessity. Those who set them through their interest wander the comfort zone whereas necessity grabber marks the real hardship.

Life has moments that feel as if the sun has blackened to tar and the entire world turned to ice. It feels as if Hades and his vile demons have risen from the depths of...

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.

What is the purpose of my life? Why am I here?” the crisis has already begun. Conversion becomes possible the very moment a man ceases to blame God or life and begins to blame himself;...

When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You’ll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told...

Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame… at your past, which naturally has a...

Don’t know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

She looks very virtuous and very melancholy.””Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

Those who were raised in poverty and have been successful to overcome the shame of it, understands the hardship of those who are left behind.

I will never forget the hardship that begets wisdom.

Why is it we must suffer the loss of something so dear before we realize what a treasure we had?Why must the sun be darkened before we feel how genuinely impossible it is to live...

The intellect of man is forced to choosePerfection of the life, or of the workAnd if it take the second must refuseA heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men.