#hardship

We are inspired by those who, despite unbelievable pain and hardship, have chosen to become victors. ↗

— Judge Glenda Hatchett

#inspiration #victorious-living #inspirational

So we beat on, boats aaginst the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life #love #struggling #life

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#depression #efforts #entails #fear #fools

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#grief #hardship #misfortune #sorrow #suffering

Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#hardship #money

I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood. ↗

— Kate Chisman

#creepy #fear #fearful #ghost #ghosts

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#poverty #youth #need

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#dollars #hard #hardships #land #man

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#consent #depress #down #hardship #influence

Hardship makes the world obscure. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#makes #obscure #world