Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles and obstacles of their increasing age.
I have heard from people that the first year of marriage is the toughest. Brie [Bella] and I have definitely had our share of life difficulties with me having neck surgery and that sort of thing, but things are going really well and it is getting better after year one and that is phenomenal.
That's life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.
I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.
The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.
I actually went to NYU for six months, had some family issues that kind of set me back, and I couldn't afford to go anymore. That was the theme going on in my whole life, you know: money stopping me from whatever I wanted to do.
Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.
Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.
I have the same problems that everybody else does.
I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.
Fear is something that can really hold us all back from different things in life. It's important to notice what your fears are and try to conquer them.
It's an obstacle being a girl when you move all over and don't have half the things you need. It's like everything is wrinkled in your life.
Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!
The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.
I never went to college. I was pregnant at 23.
Everybody has their own problems. No matter how big you think yours are, there is someone else that has bigger problems or different problems.
Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.
Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.
Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters.
It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.
We're all brought up in a world that isn't the best place for us to be in once in a while. There are so many problems and we try to overcome them all.
To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer... that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
