These are the times that try men’s souls.
Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
You know it’s funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.
You’ve got to find a way to survive because they win when your soul dies.
Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.
I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
Life is not what it’s supposed to be. It’s what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
After all, a crisis doesn’t make a person; it reveals what a person is made of.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
The hardest things in life are done the least but provide the most.
Life’s hard, then you die.
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for something when you compare and contrast it to something worse.
There are no happy endings.
It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.