If you’re lazy, don’t expect much in terms of success. You’re owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It’s earned.
I always believe if you’re stuck in a hole and maybe things aren’t going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
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.