Leo Tolstoy Quotes

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

I'm not really struggling about my career. The struggles are in my personal life. I can't really pinpoint how long it took me to get where I'm at, and I didn't care how long it was going to take, because it's not about the destination, it's about the journey.

When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.

I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.

Life is full of ups and downs. One needs to stay positive in life, no matter what.

People go through so much in life - financially, physically, mentally, and emotionally. So I don't look at the ups and downs as anything but a negligible area.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there.

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.