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Hardship Quote by Tahir Shah

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“Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.”

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“As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while;…

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“The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.”

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If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of…

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“Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at…

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“Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a…

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“Moroccan traffic isn't like normal traffic. It's armed combat, a war of wills, in which only the very bravest have a chance to survive.”

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“Prideep pointed to the flames of paraffin lamps as they came alive in the distance and cackled in awe at the experience. (…) I…

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“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come…

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The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

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“As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.”

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“In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.”

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“Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the…

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“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.”

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't…

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In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

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God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.

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It isn't easy to suffer failure, go through all the pain and the hardship.

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The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person…

Bruno Bettelheim

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I could do without many things with no hardship-you are not one of them.

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Patiently persevere in the face of hardship hoping for a good outcome because you never know how many dead hearts you will bring to…

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“Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts; it may be all you have to trust.”

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I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine…

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I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's not just them at war -…

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