Coal that bears that pressure meets a diamond.

When life gets hectic and you feel overwhelmed, take a moment to focus on the people and things you are most grateful for. When you have an attitude of gratitude, frustrating troubles will fall by...

Nukuu ya mwandishi wa vitabu wa Brazili, Paulo Coelho, “Tunapopenda tunajitahidi siku zote kuwa wazuri zaidi kuliko jinsi sisi wenyewe tulivyo. Tunapojitahidi kuwa wazuri zaidi kuliko jinsi sisi wenyewe tulivyo, kila kitu katika maisha yetu...

There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.

Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.

You know the good thing with hardships and moving on? — you’ll surely taste the pleasure of getting up and do more. Be better!

If we were always given a choice as to every path presented us in life, a multitude of roads leading to priceless treasures would forever go untraveled.Be grateful for your adversities. From toil and triumph...

I hope your only rocky road is chocolate.

Let go of all your pain. May your heart be open to healing.

If you avoid all of life’s abrasions you will never be polished enough to shine.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

The next time you feel that you will never get past the things you’re experiencing now, look back on the trials you’ve experienced in the past and think about how far you’ve come since they...

I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life’s chapters and see what can be turned into a book. For you never know what heartache God, one day, can turn...

[Their marriage] will not be all cakes and ale…. They are too much alike to be the ideal match. Patty is thick-skinned and passionate, too ready to be hurt to the heart by the mere...

Every stage of life have its own challenges.

So let those people go on weeping and wailing whose self-indulgent minds have been weakened by long prosperity, let them collapse at the threat of the most trivial injuries; but let those who have spent...

Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength, within our trials lives our triumphs. Friction creates a platform for...

Life is hard and unfair. It is cruel and heartless, painful, trying, disappointing, unapologetic, and frequently downright awful. But that’s not important. What’s important is that through it all you learn how much you need...

You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I’ve seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those...

Jesus Christ is always there for you. He longs to aid you, He longs to be by your side, to help you through your struggles, to heal your aching heart and to mend your broken...

Closing your eyes won’t make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head – doesn’t this feed the monster?...

Under every layer of pain, another layer of recovery lies in wait, the sweet, forever surprising truth of endurance.

This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another.

If I could just capture each memory in a bottle the maybe you people would understand how much I’ve suffered, how much I’ve been through, but most importantly how far I have come.

Some days are hard on us. Life gets serious and shit sucks. But you’re my favorite distraction, attraction and human being. And, I can’t wait to love you more tomorrow.

Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful, cheerful thought in the world will fix it. So let me cry awhile....

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

Don’t judge too harshly, for if your weaknesses were to be placed under your footsteps, most likely you would stumble and fall as well.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

It’s going to be hard––everything worth doing is.

It’s a hard life if you don’t weaken.

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object—the joy of living—is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up. There are valleys,...

Life isn’t a lazy cruise on some endless, calm, and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves that wreck and sink your boat. Life is a series of storms―overcast skies,...

The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor’s edge.

God is willing and able to turn his judgements into joys . . . Don’t ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

Personal problems appear big because we press our nose to the glass to observe them. This only serves to magnify our troubles. The problems of others we tend to view at a reasonable distance from...

The other shoppers were too well behaved to stare at the green-headed stoner and the tear-streaked lady zigzagging up the aisles with a chubby bearded guy scurrying behind them picking up the things they dropped.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

No matter who you are, everyone has a shadow; a constant darkness that follows them wherever they go…unless where you go is into the darkness itself, of course, because then you have already been consumed.

When words can’t make it better, hold my hand and don’t let go.

How I wished after all the hardships, you will immediately attain your reward. But it’s not that easy. You need to wait for the right time to come in your life. Always bear in mind...

Five truly effective prescriptions to remedy a bad day. (You can’t overdose.)—Pray; discuss your troubles with God.—List your blessings. (The blue sky, soft cookies, warm socks, etc.)—Call your mom.—Visit an animal shelter and hug a...

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

I don’t like forgetting, Elías,” I said with my eyes closed. A single tear slipped down my cheek and I let it. “I don’t want to forget these moments that constantly remind me of who...

I know you’re scared, Letti, but sweetheart…you haven’t seen anything yet. You’ve not known true fear…

Your true love for God is demonstrated through your ability to hold onto your faithfulness in the midst of Prosperity and Poverty, Happiness and Hardships, Sickness and Success; in whatever is Appealing or Appalling!

Don’t underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and...