Regina Spektor Quotes

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.

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

Life is not mean to be easy.

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

I don't care who you are, life has challenges.

Life is supposed to get tough.

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

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

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

The journey towards success is not always easy or upwards.

Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

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.

They say behind mountains are more mountains.

Nothing has ever come easy for me.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

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.

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

Everything looks like a failure in the middle

To the stars through thorns.

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

Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones.

I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.

My whole life, I have had to fight.

Every phase of my life always hasn't been perfect for me. I've had to go through some adversity.

There's always going to be adversity.