There are no good options in the midst of a crisis.
If it was up to us every single day, then we would all have a perfect life, but stuff happens, but it's an imperfect world.
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Life can't be always be stable always right. There are things which are out of your control.
When you're boiling in oil, in the middle of a crisis, the challenges are so consuming there is no time for anything else.
Every time something is going good, going great, there's always something that happens to remind you of reality.
There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.
Almost every achievement contains within its success the seeds of a future problem.
Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
it is certain that the future will bring realities for which our traditional optimism fails to prepare us and against which our economic momentum fails to arm us.
Part of what you learn about life is that a wrecking ball can come out of nowhere, and it isn't just going to take out your left toe. It can hit you right in the middle and take you down.
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
We all know about certain problems we wish we didn't have.
