coping with difficulty Quotes

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

Necessity makes heroes of us all.

Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.

I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

If anybody says they get used to it, you don't.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I look back and think of all the times I've had to let things go in the past, and how traumatic it seemed while it was happening, but how my understanding of it changed as time passed - and oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term. So I remind myself of that.

It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in fields that are gory. It's a different song when everything's wrong, When you're feeling infernally mortal; When it's ten against one, and hope there is none, Buck up, little soldier, and chortle!

There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.

In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.

Understanding a situation doesn't always make it easier

More can I bear than you dare execute.

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task.

What you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do. It's always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle.

But you have to figure that if it’s too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.