#tough

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me. ↗

— Paula McLain

#resilience #toughness #life

He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. "Here." I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. "See what I mean? Thorns don't stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them.... Cause the rose is worth it... Think what you'd miss. ↗

— Charles Martin

#thorns #tough-life #tough-times #worth #life

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it. ↗

— Virginia Euwer Wolff

#hard-times #life #the-way-of-life #tough #life

Being physically tough is measured by how many fights you win, but mental toughness is measured by how you react when all the chips are stacked against you, how fast you get back on track when life kicks you in the nuts. Any fool can win a fight, but it takes a person with true grit to never give up when all seems lost. ↗

— Benjamin Bayani

#life #toughness #life

They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#causing #civilized #country #each #europe

A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point. ↗

— Sean Bean

#am #common #easy-going #fair #guess

But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives. ↗

— Paul Begala

#being #clinton #fight #fought #happened

The interviews have been a little tough due to the fact that we're interviewing dogs. We see a lot of contestants licking themselves, but we're used to that from covering the Grammys. ↗

— Melissa Rivers

#contestants #covering #dogs #due #fact

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough. ↗

— Donna Brazile

#because #childhood #enjoy #even #faith

I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

#acting class #actor #always #class #decided