“...he lived with the consequences of self discovery and i suspected this was a more exacting hardship than anything the world might… — Don Dellilo Copy Share Image
“Some teach you what can't be taught, by turning their back on you & helping you get internally closer to everything you… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still… — Kate Chisman Copy Share Image
If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported?.. Poverty and hardship… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“We must come down from our heights, and leave our straight paths, for the byways and low places of life, If we… — Richard Henry Dana Jr Copy Share Image
Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter… — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The good news of the gospel [for sufferers] is not an exhortation from above to 'hang on at all costs,' or 'grin… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The secret is to be aware of this unfailing principle, to understand that lack is simply the out picturing of false beliefs,… — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
We all face hard parts of life that seem like there is no end to the obstacles, but hardship is a part… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
“Life’s gonna kick you in the butt; that’s what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways:… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with… — Kim Il-sung Copy Share Image
The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
It seems that once you achieve something large, the target on your back grows. But I always want to look at life… — David A. R. White Copy Share Image
“Why is it we must suffer the loss of something so dear before we realize what a treasure we had? Why must… — Richelle Goodrich Copy Share Image
Sustainability requires that we demand enduring quality. Steve Strong has a slide presentation pointing out that much of Oxford was built 800… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore,… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Do not shy away form your greatness in order to accommodate others. Let them feel discomfort, let them be intimidated. Never trade… — Tsepiso Makhubedu Copy Share Image
But the universe isn't fair. Things don't work out neatly, pain, hardship and challenges divided equally among those best equipped to deal… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings,… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist. I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past. And I also believe I have… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
We can bring brilliant flowers of victory to bloom in our lives when we weather the hardships of winter and emerge triumphant… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“We must come down from our heights, and leave our straight paths for the by-ways and low places of life, if we… — Richard Henry Dana Jr Copy Share Image