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The only joy in this hard life is serving others.
Sep 10, 2025
It's a hard life to have sex with eight to 10 men a night. That's hard physically, let alone emotionally.
There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.
Im not trying to hate on nobody.I love everybody that works towards what I was working towards.Its a hard game,its a hard life.
It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.
I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end up living a pretty rough life. At a young age, I just knew I wasn't going to give in because I didn't want to end up being one of those people in the neighborhood that didn't have anything and lived a hard life.
A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.
A hard life improves the vision.
Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
Hate no one, no matter how much they've wronged you. Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become. Think positively, no matter how hard life is. Give much, even if you've been given little. Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love.
Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life.
In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.
Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.
Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.
The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He will lead a hard life, but a glorious one. May God raise up many such prophets. The church needs them badly.
That was my dad's sense of, you know, laughing at himself, laughing at existence, the universe, all of it and not being too serious about what we do with because at the end of the day if you're here it's a blessing. It's you know life is hard. Life is hard for everybody at some point, but it's those who are able to laugh at it and laugh with it and roll with it that ultimately I think live the fulfilling lives that we're all trying to do. You know, and big step there is to not take yourself too seriously from the start.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.
I made up my mind several years ago that I had worked very hard to get to where I am in life and that I was only going to do things that are fun and exciting.
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.
So this was it. You take a wrong step and you end up wearing yesterday's underwear, sitting on the carpet trying to teach yourself how to knit. And even that doesn't work. She never expected it to be so hard. Life.
When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he's coming at me with a wet dish towel.
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.
When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.