Jane Porter Quotes

Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.

Trouble is part of your life

To choose always the hardest.

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

If He put tribulation before you and said He will give you patience by giving you a little trouble along the way, wouldn't you take a little trouble? You say, 'Lord, I want all my highways paved.' the Lord says, 'I'm sorry, I can't accommodate you. I'm going to let you run over some bumps occasionally, so you will have patience.' You do not like the bumps, but you like the patience, and if you want the patience, you will have to take the bumps. And what is patience but experience?

A smooth life is not a victorious life.

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

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

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

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.

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.