Richelle Mead Quotes

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

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

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

Struggle has been a part and parcel of my life.

Struggling has done a couple of things for me. It is an experience to have and it makes you appreciate the good stuff.

You are brought up to realise that there will always be tough times in football and that nothing is ever straight forward.

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

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

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.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Living isn't a simple thing...no one said it's supposed to be.

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.

They say behind mountains are more mountains.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

I've had my ups. I've had my downs, but I've been able to push through every obstacle that's been thrown my way.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

There's always been adversity, wherever I've gone.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

I'm still swimming.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.