Jessica Mitford Quotes

It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.

Labor is really going to hurt.

If it doesn't hurt, it wasn't a big deal.

Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

The purpose exceeds the pain.

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost

Every mile is two in winter

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

Because everything worth having hurts.

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

No gains without pains.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.