I don’t know how to live well. I only know how to suffer.
Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It’s up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
Life for me has not been a crystal stair.
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.
Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.
You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!
You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.
When you hit rock bottom, you have nowhere to go but up.
Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
It’s not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.
Don’t be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond.