#hardship

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

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#emotional-wounds #happiness #hardships #self-image #suffering

Hardship makes the world obscure. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#makes #obscure #world

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#intellect #life #life

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#during #eternal #eternal love #even #fall

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#happens #happiness #happy #hardship #hell

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#encountered #future #hardships #help #i

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#came #career #caused #family #feel

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned. ↗

— Lindsay Lohan

#going #hardships #healthier #i #learned