Hardship Quotes - Page 7

• But the universe isn't fair. Things don't work out neatly, pain, hardship and challenges divided equally among those best equipped to deal with them. Sometimes individuals have to be Atlases and carry the weight of the world alone. It shouldn't happen that way, but it does.

  Darren Shan

  Pain, Work Out, Challenges

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• We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after a meal. There were many hardships to our type of life and we took these small comforts as they came; I found they added up to something decent enough to carry on

  Patrick deWitt

  Thinking, Agreement, Silence

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.12, Granta Books

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• Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the spark in you that is not subdued in the face of the vast and callous indifference of the universe. Hope is that which is not shattered by hardship. Hope is the urge to fight what is wrong even when you know it will destroy you. Hope is the decision to love and need someone knowing that they will one day die. For me to promise that there are no obstacles would be the cruelest lie I could possibly tell. That lie is not hope. Hope is the will which needs no lies.

  Travis Beacham

  Love, Lying, Fighting

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• For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships. Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our lot in life.

  Gary Chapman

  Sea, Mountain, Desert

  Gary Chapman, Ross Campbell (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages Men's Edition/The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers/The 5 Love Lan”, p.16, Moody Publishers

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• In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Self, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.

  Mark Hart

  Love, Forgiveness, Patience

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• Hardships drive some people apart. Others, like us, grow even closer.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Grows

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• The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems; we all go through hardships and pain, and my pain is paradise compared to a lot of people’s and I really have no right to whine at all.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Pain, Play, People

  J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk along the line as if they were led on a string. The transition from the line to the plane into the two dimensions, when you wander across a field or through a wood, is a splendid liberation to the slaves, like the French Revolution. But in the air you are taken into the full freedom of the three dimensions; after long ages of exile and dreams the homesick heart throws itself into the arms of space.

  Isak Dinesen

  Dream, Taken, Heart

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.

  Judith Orloff

  Spiritual, Godly, Optimism

  Judith Orloff (2009). “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life”, p.43, Harmony

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• In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.

  Louis Susman

  War, America, Allies

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• So often we experience things in life, and yet never see the connections between them. When we are given hardship, or feel pain, we often fail to consider that the experience may be the direct cause or result of another action or experience. Sometimes we fail to recognize the direct connection between the pain in our lives and our relationship with Allah SWT

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Pain, Things In Life, Connections

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• God doesn't author hardship but uses it to strengthen us for greater conquests. He never leads us into a storm that He doesn't give us the power to overcome.

  John Bevere

  Giving, Storm, Overcoming

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• A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress - freedom from anger and patient endurance of injuries; and of the perfect - humility, thirst for dishonors, voluntary craving for involuntary afflictions, non- condemnation of sinners, compassion even beyond one's strength. The first are acceptable, the second laudable; but blessed are those who hunger for hardship and thirst for dishonor, for they shall be filled with the food whereof there can be no satiety.

  John Climacus

  Blessed, Humility, Compassion

  Saint John (Climacus) (1959). “The Ladder of Divine Ascent”

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• A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Military, Marine, Knights

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• If God gives you (or makes you) a joke, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Laugh.)
  If God gives you an obstacle, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Climb it. Then laugh.)
  If God gives you more profound hardship, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Climb it. Then laugh. Exhibit A: His Son.)

  N.D. Wilson

  Son, Giving, Profound

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.41, Thomas Nelson

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• This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome. ...I cared not how or where I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ.

  David Brainerd

  Morning, Prayer, Soul

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• There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

  Anil Kapoor

  Faces, Hurdling Obstacles, Handicaps

  Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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• I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of us to the immense hardships beyond our borders.

  Werner Bischof

  Borders, World, Venture

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• You must always remember this. When hardships come, don't automatically ask God to deliver you from them. Perhaps it would be wiser to ask: What do I have to learn before I am delivered from this problem?

  Harold Klemp

  Would Be, Remember, Problem

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• I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived. 'I go forth alone, and stand as ten thousand,' Maya Angelou proclaimed in her poem 'Our Grandmothers.' When I move through the world, I bring all my history with me-all the people who paved the way for me are part of who I am.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Brother, Moving

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.48, Macmillan

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• I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dog, Pain, Names

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.249, Vintage

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• In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them did not weaken the morale of the populace.

  Albert Speer

  War, Impact, Cities

  "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" by Albert Speer, (p. 363), 1970.

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• The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.

  Boris Johnson

  Creating, Community, London

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• No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Jewels

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