Alice Hoffman Quotes

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

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

The journey towards success is not always easy or upwards.

Life is not mean to be easy.

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

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

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.

They say behind mountains are more mountains.

Not everything in the world is easy or powerful.

Struggle is part of the journey.

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

Everything looks like a failure in the middle

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

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.

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.

I live with challenges.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, "What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career."

Life is a series of problems.