{"quotes":[{"text":"Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way., Nov. 20, 2009].","author":"Cormac McCarthy","tags":["hip","creation","creative-process","driving-forces","hardship","pain","writing"],"id":2178,"author_id":"Cormac+McCarthy"},{"text":"In a fit of anger he had said to her, 'You'll always be miserable,' to which she thoughtfully replied, 'Is that so? It's impossible to be miserable when you've known tragedy and hardship. Both strengthen and refine a person to the point where they may have moments of grief and sadness, but misery is known only to those who have a sense of entitlement...You know, people like you.","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["entitlement","hardship","strength","tragedy","tragic","weakness"],"id":4270,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"},{"text":"To those who, in spite of everything, still choose goodness.","author":"Marie Lu","tags":["choice","darkness","evil","good","goodness","hardship","hope","inspirational","light","marie-lu"],"id":8496,"author_id":"Marie+Lu"},{"text":"I hate forcing myself to go to bed to avoid committing suicide.","author":"Phil Volatile","tags":["depressed","hardship","life","poetry","sad","suicide"],"id":9477,"author_id":"Phil+Volatile"},{"text":"The struggle hurts now but will be sweet in times of retrospect.","author":"Innocent Mwatsikesimbe","tags":["hardship","inspirational","life","motivation","struggle"],"id":9843,"author_id":"Innocent+Mwatsikesimbe"},{"text":"The hope of hardships!","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["hardship","hope","inspiration"],"id":12876,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Life has moments that feel as if the sun has blackened to tar and the entire world turned to ice.  It feels as if Hades and his vile demons have risen from the depths of Tartarus solely for the purpose of banding to personally torture you, and that their genuine intent of mental, emotional, and spiritual anguish is tearing you to shreds.  Your heart weighs as heavily as leaden legs which you would drag yourself forward with if not for the quicksand that pulls you down inch by inch, paralyzing your will and threatening oblivion.  And all the while fire and brimstone pour from the sky, pelting only you.  Truly, that is what it feels like. But that feeling is a trial that won't last forever.  Never give up.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["courage","depression","fortitude","hardship","hope","inspirational","persistence","richelle","richelle-goodrich","strength","trials","tribulation","willpower"],"id":16143,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Enough pain will keep you humble.Enough grief will keep you compassionate.Enough trouble will keep you strong.Enough hardship will keep you grateful.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["adversity","challenges","compassion","compassionate","gratitude","grief","guru","hardship","humble","humility","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","matshona-dhliwayo","overcome","overcomer","overcoming","pain","sage","strength","strength","strong","thankful","trouble"],"id":17436,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["accountability","adversity","compel","drive","endure","failure","hardship","overcoming","overcoming-obstacles","pressure","rebirth","slacking","surpassing","surpassing-yourself","sustainability"],"id":20160,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"He could feel himself gliding down like the sail of a weightless craft, forever plunging into the great beyond below where mermaids sing and summon their lovers home, further down into the depths of some complacent serenity, further down where thoughts float away and never return and the lightness is so grand that there is no other worldly place imaginable, for there is no world left to beconsidered. There is only the soul, free from the prison of the body, and it is released to travelanother millennium through time, carrying with it the progress and industry gathered from themind previously occupied.","author":"Matthew Chase Stroud","tags":["freedom","hardship","life-and-living","serenity","young-minds"],"id":20408,"author_id":"Matthew+Chase+Stroud"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":225,"pages":23,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}