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I've learned so much from the Pirahas over the years. But this is perhaps my favorite lesson. Sure, life is hard and there is plenty of danger. And it might make us lose some sleep from time to time. But enjoy it. Life goes on.
Oct 2, 2025
Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
Hate no one, no matter how much they've wronged you. Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become. Think positively, no matter how hard life is. Give much, even if you've been given little. Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love.
Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life.
In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.
Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.
Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.
We have to laugh. Life is hard and the news is often grim - you should be able to turn on NPR's Weekend Edition every week and know that we are going to make you think, make you question - and make you laugh, preferably out loud.
That was my dad's sense of, you know, laughing at himself, laughing at existence, the universe, all of it and not being too serious about what we do with because at the end of the day if you're here it's a blessing. It's you know life is hard. Life is hard for everybody at some point, but it's those who are able to laugh at it and laugh with it and roll with it that ultimately I think live the fulfilling lives that we're all trying to do. You know, and big step there is to not take yourself too seriously from the start.
I made up my mind several years ago that I had worked very hard to get to where I am in life and that I was only going to do things that are fun and exciting.
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.
Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art.
At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.
Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.
I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.
It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?
Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river, life has its moments of drought and its moments of flood. Like the ever-changin cycle of the seasons, life has the soothing warmth of the summers and the piercing chill of its winters. But through it all, God walks with us. Never forget that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace.
Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.
Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.
Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.
What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.
Pause and remember - Stop mentally abusing yourself. Stop agonizing over your past mistakes and worrying about the future. Life is hard enough without the added fear, panic and anxiety. Your soul is crying out for love and encouragement. Take a moment to breathe deep, get present and find some compassion for yourself. Then, go out and treat yourself right; pamper yourself and take care of your needs. You are worth it!
Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.