Bruce Springsteen Quotes

Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.

I mean... in life... what relationship is easy?

It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.

We had to play the hand we were dealt, all of us. Fighting the battles we could win.

It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.

Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

Life's not real easy right now. But I guess I'd rather have it this way than not at all.

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

Bear calamities with meekness.

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

I think that's okay and that is part of growing up and that is good, to learn that the world isn't always your oyster or isn't everybody's oyster.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.