Thomas S. Monson Quotes

Every family struggles with different things, and everybody struggles with different things.

I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.

I went through a tough time after leaving 'tennis.

Real life is difficult - some people find that hard to process.

Young players will suffer at times and have days when they can't cope or adjust.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.

Relapse happens, especially when you're dealing with folks who are frankly the least likely to succeed based on their own pasts and difficulties. We can work with the most likely to succeed. I'm not interested in that.

Nothing in my life was ever easy.

I'm not in the business of suffering.

Everyone has some sort of struggle.

You always have something. You always have a challenge.

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.

Sometimes when we get our ass kicked and we're down, sometimes we stay down, and sometimes we get depressed and sometimes we don't know how to handle it, and sometimes we don't know what's going on, and sometimes we feel like it's not worth going on.

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

Life is hard already. Why make it harder?

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

Hardships make or break people.

We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

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