#hardships

Perhaps there really is a good that exists; for a century of darkness to be eschewed by a single flame; for a decade of evil done to the heart to be undone by simple and unplanned acts of kindness! There must be a goodness, after all! But we don't find it when we're looking for it; not in church, not in a cathedral, not even in our own homes! We find it when we've fallen down so hard, are downtrodden so low; and there is one true friend who picks us up; or one random person who takes us in! And we realize goodness was never in the places we thought it was! It was all along in the most humble of places: bound up in the heart of a true friend. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#friendship #goodness #hard-times #hardships #inspirational-quotes

I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them. ↗

— Harold Ford

#benefits #civil #couples #decisions #economic

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

It's a hard life if you don't weaken. ↗

— Stephen King

#hard-life #hardships #life #life-lessons #steadfastness

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#better #better person #blame #else #had

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#death #difficult #endure #englishmen #ever

Finding the reason to live doesn't put you on top, it's the hardships faced in process that get you there. ↗

— Sachin Kumar Puli

#hardships #knowledge #learning #life #life

You’re not a victim of the past; you’re a conqueror of the present moment and the hero of your own life ↗

— Martin Suarez

#courageous #hardship #hardships #life #tribulations

If I could just capture each memory in a bottle the maybe you people would understand how much I've suffered, how much I've been through, but most importantly how far I have come. ↗

— Tommy Tran

#hardships #inspirational #memory #suffering #tommy-tran

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#belong #brutal #centuries #crossed #experienced