#hardship

If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me, know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me. Behold, I cry out ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice. […] Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh? Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever! For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. -Job 19: 5-7, 23-27 ↗

— Anonymous

#inspirational #redemption #inspirational

There is the authority of position and the authority of knowledge - 'Authority flows from the one who knows.' But sharing in hardship confers upon a leader something quite rare - moral authority. ↗

— John Adair

#leadership #leadership

So we beat on, boats aaginst the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life #love #struggling #life

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

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

I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood. ↗

— Kate Chisman

#creepy #fear #fearful #ghost #ghosts

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

— Charles Bukowski

#poverty #youth #need

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#become #branches #case #certain #cultures

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#had #hardship #i #i remember #lot

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#encountered #future #hardships #help #i