Robert Hunter Quotes

Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

No Victory Without Suffering

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

You can and you must expect suffering.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

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

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

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.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

A loss is something tough.

I've been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn't have to go through.

Every loss, every defeat is tough in its own way.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

Pain is one of the unavoidable facts of life. We Bidens have had our share. We don't pretend otherwise. And we don't pretend that we are different from families all over America that have to face the loss of loved ones or have to deal with the fallout of divorces.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.