Amanda Peterson Quotes

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.

It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy.

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

Adulthood is hell.

I had to grow up fast because we know it's not all fairy tales out there; it's full of rubbish.

Real life happens. Sometimes it's messy. Sometimes it doesn't work.

Life is not a theoretical problem to be solved in class.

When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes.

The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.

The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.

I know the struggles that are ahead in my life and I know the struggles that are ahead in your life. It's not going to be pretty.

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Watch out for life ... It's harder than it looks.

It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.

Life isn't all beer and skittles.

I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

It is difficult to make people understand that the ideal doesn't exist, that personal equilibrium and the harmony they dream of come only after years and years of struggle, and that even then they come only as flashes of grace and peace.