Getting old is not for sissies.
This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.
Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!
I did all kind of jobs to sustain myself. I worked at a grocery store, in the public health department, and what was then Thomas Cook and Sons. The last job was particularly interesting, but I got fired from it.
Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.
Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
To be truly empathetic, we have to acknowledge that we're all human, we're all flawed, and that life can be difficult.
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
I know the struggles that are ahead in my life and I know the struggles that are ahead in your life. It's not going to be pretty.
That's life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.
A lot of people say, 'Well, I like a challenge. 'I don't like challenges. Life is tough enough without any challenges.
Reading put perspective to any challenge I was facing and made me see that extraordinary people usually had extraordinary pain, difficulties or injustices. That's part of why they have the drive and hunger to do good in the world, to make something happen.
I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.
Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music.
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose
Marriage is not something that's easy, but nothing in life is easy.
Everyone in life has their challenges, mine have not been financial.
I think this life is hard without assistance from others.
All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
For hundreds of thousands of years, life was brutal. It still is for a good chunk of the planet. The technology and wealth we enjoy in North America is a very new development in history, and I think we miss the challenges of day-to-day survival in our comparatively easy modern lives. Some people will even create problems if they have none.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
