Quotes about hardship
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Isaac Mashman photo

“Withstanding hardships is a sort of sport. You can’t control how life plays, but you can control your defensive strategy.”

Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker

Life, Sport
Seneca the Younger photo

“Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter IV: On the terrors of death

Life, Death, Men, Fear
James Howard Kunstler photo

“Many individual immune systems will be compromised by the hardships of the Long Emergency and disease will seize the opportunities presented, as it always has. […] Millions of human beings are going to die.”

James Howard Kunstler book The Long Emergency

Source: The Long Emergency (2005), Chapter 5, p. 182.

Disease
Muhammad al-Taqi photo

“There are three characteristics that attract kindness: being fair in dealing with others, being helpful when others are in hardships and bearing a truly compassionate heart.”

Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism

[Mizan al-Hikmah, Muhammadi Reishahri, Muhammad, Dar al-Hadith, 2010, 2, Qum, 414]

Help, Heart
Marcelo H. del Pilar photo

“The education of the women stimulates and elevates that of the men.. because of their influence in the family as daughter, sister, wife or mother…They are not only a balm to the hardships of life but also an element that influences and guides men along the path of virtue, perversity or cowardice.”

Marcelo H. del Pilar (1850–1896) Filipino writer, lawyer, and journalist (1850-1896)

Marcelo H. del Pilar to the women of Bulacan (1889)

Life, Women, Men, Education
Irving Kristol photo

“Are we in danger of becoming a nation of cry-babies? Are we becoming a people who panic at the least sign at adversity? Are we becoming a people with a faith not in God or in ourselves, but in a paternalistic government to shelter us from all of life's hardships and misfortunes?”

Irving Kristol (1920–2009) American columnist, journalist, and writer

Source: Memorandum to Robert T. Hartmann https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0204/1511691.pdf (1976)

Life, God, People, Faith

“During these moments of extreme difficulty we will all have to adapt in some way, because there are already many who live in hardship.”

Eduardo Horacio García (1956) Catholic bishop

Source: Covid 19: "the word of God is carried out by concrete gestures of solidarity", underlines Mgr. Garcia http://www.fides.org/en/news/67736-AMERICA_ARGENTINA_Covid_19_the_word_of_God_is_carried_out_by_concrete_gestures_of_solidarity_underlines_Mgr_Garcia (14 April 2020coronavirus)

Way

“Life is a gift box full of hardships and struggles”

Attiah

Life, Box

“Mary places herself between her Son and mankind in the reality of our hardships and sufferings. She places herself in the middle - she becomes a mediator not as a stranger, but in her role as true mother, aware that as such she makes present to her Son the needs of mankind.”

José Luis Mollaghan (1946) Argentinian archbishop

Argentinean bishop: Rosary helps Catholics face difficulties of life https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/21189/argentinean-bishop-rosary-helps-catholics-face-difficulties-of-life (18 October 2010)

Reality, Suffering