#hardship

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#depression #efforts #entails #fear #fools

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#grief #hardship #misfortune #sorrow #suffering

Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#hardship #money

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un été invincible. ↗

— Albert Camus

#hardship #seasons #self #strength #summer

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#dollars #hard #hardships #land #man

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#consent #depress #down #hardship #influence

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#cowards #endure #even #hardship #only

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#because #deep #deep way #extraordinary #hardship

It's a hard life if you don't weaken. ↗

— Stephen King

#hard-life #hardships #life #life-lessons #steadfastness

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#better #better person #blame #else #had