One with great successes has had equally great hardships.

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature’s laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it’s dreams; it learned...

Coal that bears that pressure meets a diamond.

…it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.

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

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...

Individuals who have learned to endure and persevere through the storms of hardships are those who can dance in the rain during a storm.

What I want to impart through our correspondence is that no matter what anyone may be going through, here’s the thing: If you love each other, and if your relationship is worth the pain or...

Life’s gonna kick you in the butt.That’s what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for...

It’s not about getting over things, it’s about making room for them. It’s about painting the picture with contrast.

(…) poucas vezes a gente encontra pessoas cuja alegria não seja somente digestiva.

Sometimes I was too tired,other times just lazy. Now and then, I was frustrated because nothing seemed to be happening – nosigns from God, no enlightenment, nothing. But that wasn’t the point, the Shaykh explained....

it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at...

It’s easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

In a fit of anger he had said to her, “You’ll always be miserable,” to which she thoughtfully replied, “Is that so? It’s impossible to be miserable when you’ve known tragedy and hardship. Both strengthen...

I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It’s like coffee. Once it’s roasted,...

A troubled life beats having no life at all

Believe me. Your hardship, tears and sorrows you are facing now are the training of your spirit. The strength you learn from there brings you more love and smiles in your future. Wherever you are,...

When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.

I was eight years old and scared, and had no idea what was going on

If miracles were easy, the would be everywhere.

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to...

Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts; it may be all you have to trust.

There were times of hardship when people forget the courage they need to keep fighting; and survive. But I think as long as we have something to believe in; to keep close in our hearts,...

A gem, like you, is made beautiful by being polished. It’s not an easy undertaking, but a stone that exists undisturbed among others just is…but the most beautiful stand out because they face being alone,...

Throw out old clothes and shoes, and train your brain to get rid of old thoughts and ideas.

Sacrifice has great value in that it not only achieves personal success but builds successful communities, nations and humanity. Each moment spent in selfless sacrifice makes you a stronger person, and such strength fosters the...

Au milieu de l’hiver, j’apprenais enfin qu’il y avait en moi un été invincible.

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You’ve got to harden the metal.

… when it seemed at every turn that the winds of fate had blown our lives afoul, financially, emotionally, or idealistically. Look at all that we endured. Look at all we managed to light along...

I’ve figured out why they call it a trial. Because you try all you can to pull through it. 

What a weary time those years were — to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent,...

Suffering is the fire by which love is tested.

Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep in him, beneath his memory, was the knowledge of hardship and hunger and endurance and pain.

Lodged”The rain to the wind said,’You push and I’ll pelt.’They so smote the garden bed.That the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged — though not dead.I know how the flowers felt.

I didn’t care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn’t fun to watch.

That’s life. It’s a series of knock-down, drag-out fights with yourself and others that will leave you lying on the ground bruised and bloody and drooling all over your shag carpeting. But all that doesn’t...

It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand — having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.

… being different, being unique … that afforded me a life, a journey that I am now so thankful for.

If you complain about small calamities, Allah will give you great calamities.

He were found drowned. He were coming home very hopeless o’ aught on earth. He thought God could na be harder than men; mappen not so hard; mappen as tender as a mother; mappen tenderer....

Though you may hear me holler,And you may see me cry–I’ll be dogged, sweet baby,If you gonna see me die.

Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

You can’t be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses with an air that she could never attain, would never wish to attain. She hated them, these smiling, light-footed...

Take a chance and risk it all or play it safe and suffer defeat.