#hardships

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

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

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

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

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

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be. ↗

— Sarah Hughes

#day-in #day-out #difficult #hardships #how

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

I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much. ↗

— Ione Skye

#brave #challenging #class #completely #different

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#calamity #characteristics #courage #faces #grow

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