Mark Twain Quotes

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

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

I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to see the other side.

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.

It's always darkness before the dawn.

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.

I know my whole life has been like that, you know, scrappy, fighting for everything you get in life and you appreciate it more.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

We're all human beings, and we all have the same problems. I do remember how blessed I am, and no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!

My life is a beautiful struggle.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.