Alexander  - Quotes

 Crateros:
In the rain and the sun we've fought for you. Some of us fifty battles we've been in. We've killed many a barbarian. And now when I look around, how many of their faces do I see?
Alexander:
You know there's no part of me without a scar or a bone broken. I've shared every hardship with all of you!
Crateros:
Aye, you have, my king. And we love you for it. But, by Zeus, too many have died. We're just humble men. We seek no disturbance with the gods. All we wish for is to see our children.
 



Rainer Maria Rilke  - Quotes

 .... it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it. 

Tags: aloneness   hardship   perseverance   solitude     
Charles Bukowski  - Quotes

 What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability. 

Tags: hardship   poverty   youth     


Rainer Maria Rilke  - Quotes

 Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you. 

Tags: change   hardship     
Rainer Maria Rilke  - Quotes

 Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better. 

Tags: change   depression   hardship   misery     
Langston Hughes  - Quotes

 Though you may hear me holler,

And you may see me cry--

I'll be dogged, sweet baby,

If you gonna see me die.
 

Tags: death   hardship   pain   perseverance     
A.J. Jacobs  - Quotes

 Did you hear about the middle Eastern potentate? 

Tags: hardship   life     
David Breashears  - Quotes

 The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are. 

Tags: hardship     
Thomas Fuller  - Quotes

 The worse the passage the more welcome the port.  

Tags: hardship     


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