Alana Stewart Quotes

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.

I had no idea that what I thought was my low wasn't really my low. That's what a lot of people think - then life reminds them, 'No, there's lower.'

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Walking through this life really is walking through fire.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

No cross no crown.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.

There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

I wanted people to know that I've been through the rain. I've been broken into pieces; I had a daughter at such a young age. There were times people would say, 'That's it for her.' But that didn't happen.

I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.

You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

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.

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.