Life Lessons And Hardship Quotes & Sayings

I'm not going to name any names, but let's just say, I want to do jokes on Donald Trump so badly, and I have no venue. So right now, I'm just dry Trumping. — Stephen Colbert

There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies ... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare. — Sigmund Freud

Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving. — Ash Parsons

When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you'll surely fall flat on your face once in a while. — Kelly Cutrone

You can endure every hardship with hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Endure every hardship with hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If what you've done is stupid, but it works..then it really isn't all that stupid. — David Letterman

Look, all I meant is...words are words. They don't matter as much as you think the do. What's important are the emotions behind them" -Josh — Claudia Gabel

Earth is a school of darkness and your purpose is to educate yourself of your light. — Nikki Rowe

Though it is not the most enjoyable experience in the world, hardship is a very good teacher. When you encounter it, you cannot help but to listen to it. It speaks with power. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed. — Ricky Schroder

temples can wield great power, for they can motivate the masses to ignore self-preservation in the name of a holy cause. They have moral power, as well, ideally. But most are run by petty people with odd ideas about a civil society. — Terry Mancour

I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow. — Nikki Rowe

Maybe I'd already guessed that the physics of us didn't defy any laws of gravity, and with her, there was always an equal and opposite reaction. — Robyn Schneider

Sometimes i don't have enough soul in my cheeks to show my face to the world. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

Experience is a great teacher. — John Legend

Hardship is the hardest moment to soften the soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm fifty-seven. Too old for starting over, too young for giving up. — Sara Baume

Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps — Paula Hawkins

Better a little hardship now than a great deal of loss or suffering forever, and a third alternative simply does not exist. — Randy Leedy

We can always find creative ways to do things. — Leigh Steinberg

Peace doesn't deny difficulty, but it has an inner calm and quietness even while enduring the difficulty. — Glenn C. Stewart

When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job. — Mickey Rooney

Fear is the negative emotion that brings every traceable hardship into our life. Only Love can free us from fear. — Donald L. Hicks

Whatever your difficulty, whatever your hardship in life: Dance and make the song you sing your prayer. Sing it courageously, and with each step strengthen yourself with the knowledge and wisdom of your elders, so that whatever next happens, you can survive and not lose your rhythm. — Red Haircrow

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet. — Uma Thurman

There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we can't bear to throw away. — Russell Lynes

According to Plato, Socrates believed all knowledge came from a divine state, but humans had forgotten it. Most lived in a cave of ignorance, but one could become enlightened by climbing out of the darkness and understanding the divide between the spiritual and material planes. — Gwendolyn Womack

This is a revolution not a coup . It is either unconditional surrender or we will take down the garrison — Che Guevera