Hardship Quotes - Page 15

• Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.

  Laura Miller

  Children, Book, Reading

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• There's some idea there, and the power of it comes from the fact that most of the time you'll never be able to answer what it is. It's just there. It's just a magic moment that you can feel in your gut that it's there, and you're willing to go there and sleep there and go through the hardship and fight for it. Once you start answering it too clearly then the magic is gone.

  Kalle Lasn

  Sleep, Fighting, Magic Moments

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• Without your downs, without your hardships, I don't think you appreciate the ups as much.

  Michelle Wie

  Thinking, Appreciate

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• In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Sports

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

  Anne Frank

  Kindness, Heart, Motherhood

  Anne Frank (1989). “The diary of a young girl”, Pocket

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• For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they become more incapable of mastering reality. It is a vicious circle, like an addiction. They become vulnerable to exploitation by astrologers, godmen, dubious pseudo-psychologists, corrupt politicians and the whole mega-industry of irrationalism.

  Sanal Edamaruku

  Reality, Circles, Addiction

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Courage, Differences

  "Serenity Prayer". Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr, www.beliefnet.com. 1951.

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• There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Funny, Encouraging, Humorous

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• He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Courage, Strong

  "The Christian Herald", Vol. 92, p. 72, 1969.

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• Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character.

  Henry Rollins

  Character, Tissues, Coats

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• I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.

  Robert Redford

  People, Point Break, Quitting

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• I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

  Colin Farrell

  Philosophy, Mean, Sometimes

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• I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

  Halle Berry

  Feelings, Trying, Lessons

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• We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.

  Junot Diaz

  Matter, Way, This Life

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• Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stress, Mean, Poverty

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• Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

  Steven Seagal

  Childhood, Way, Emotion

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

  William Blake

  Passion, People, Thieves

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.135, Penguin

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• Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

  Fernando Botero

  Life, Spiritual, Art

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• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Race, Land

  The Souls of Black Folk ch. 1 (1903)

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• Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading.

  Dan B. Allender

  Loss, House, Grace

  Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.2, WaterBrook

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• In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones.

  Ray Comfort

  Country, Home, Loss

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• Everyone who has ever overcome hardship or adversity has done so in large part because he or she has chosen, consciously or unconsciously, to "let go" of their past hardship and pain by embracing, what I call, a Miracle Angle - a way of seeing their circumstances that allowed them to transform their circumstances into a spark for positive change.

  Rod Stryker

  Letting Go, Pain, Yoga

  "Let Go and Find Your Miracle Angle" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Family, Children

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Even if you were to fall into extreme financial hardship and file for bankruptcy, you need to understand that your student loan debt will not be discharged in bankruptcy. It is the Velcro of all debts.

  Suze Orman

  Fall, Financial Hardship, Velcro

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• You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.

  Miley Cyrus

  Growing Up, Careers, Littles

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