Hard Times Teach You Quotes & Sayings

A warrior of light knows that certain moments are repeated.
You often see the same problems and situations that had already been faced; then he gets depressed, thinking that it is unable to progress in life, as hard times return.
"I went through this!" He complains to his heart.
"Really you're past it - the heart responds - but never surpassed it.".
The warrior then understands that repeated experiences have a single purpose: to teach you what you do not want to learn. — Paulo Coelho

I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only through a fluke, or because, by and large, we don't have the brainpower to grapple with it. Instead, the enormous zest for science that I see in first-graders and the lesson from the remnant hunter-gatherers both speak eloquently: A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchising them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future. — Carl Sagan

I used to be hyper, throw crazy and not think about what I wanted to do with each pitch. Now I have a better understanding of what it is to be a major league pitcher. — Johan Santana

To try to let go was to hold more tightly. — Laura Kinsale

Every man has a wild beast within him. — Frederick The Great

I don't think it's soft at all. I think a man can be in touch with his emotions. — Michael Buble

Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now. — Gregg Easterbrook

I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer. — Carl Reiner

Ham is undoubtedly one of the most universally beloved of meats, at least in those parts of the world where it's not prohibited. — Kate Christensen

Ask, 'What's the meaning in this crisis? What's it trying to teach?' . . . Hard times can be gifts. They can force us to change and get us where we're meant to be. — Kristin Von Kreisler

Our experiences always teach us something. If the experience is "bad", then the lesson is even more powerful and meaningful. Every unfortunate incident makes us stronger and better equipped to handle new challenges. — Miya Yamanouchi

I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time about that, which I think is the wrong way to teach a young actor. They just made me really, really self-conscious about everything I did, which is the opposite of what you need to be when you're filming. — Iwan Rheon

They began with the fact of sin - a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or no man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing. — G.K. Chesterton

A tall, gaunt man with small narrow eyes set deep in his skull like two old sisters trying to spy out of the windows of their house without being noticed themselves. — Ned Beauman

I will support the Republican nominee. — Jeb Bush

Let the darkness find you if it must. Throw off the quick and tempting escapes, and seek help only from those who would teach you to grow, feed your soul, embrace your heart, but would not steal away your journey. — Jennifer DeLucy