Quotes on Hard Life

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He will lead a hard life, but a glorious one. May God raise up many such prophets. The church needs them badly.

Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.