Difficult Life Quotes

My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.

I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.

We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life.

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practise anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity.

Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?

Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you..." "Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" said Harry sarcastically.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

If you can't enjoy the time between golf shots, then you are going to have a pretty difficult life because most of you life is the time spent in-between.

The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings you to the core of yourself, where you learn what justice is and how it has to be fought for.

No matter how difficult life becomes, there is always hope.

Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.

Living the 'easy' life today seems to make a 'difficult' life tomorrow.

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.

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 have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer.

The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self discipline. Easy, short-term choices lead to different long-term consequences. Difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. What we thought was the easy way led to a much more difficult life. I think that motivation is sort of like a unicorn that people chance like a magic pill that will make them suddenly want to work hard. It's not out there.

In Kurdistan, theres a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.

Your mission in life is to have a "why" to live for, to use your best qualities in the service of the kind of world in which you would like to live. That is your purpose. This is what life expects of you. And when you live according to your purpose, setting goals that support it, you may find the pieces of your life drawn together into a strong internal whole. Then, no matter how difficult life's experiences may prove to be, you can be able to endure and even prevail.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.

If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.