Martha Reeves Quotes

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.

A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

Human life is too difficult for people.

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

Life is not mean to be easy.

Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

I've had many setbacks.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

I've been through a lot; that I have.

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

Not everything in the world is easy or powerful.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.