42 phrases that teach us that life is hard

Life is not easy. Several reflections and famous quotes give an account of it.

Today we are going to talk about phrases that tell us that life is hard.

All of us, at some point, have had to face tremendous difficulties. Illnesses, family members leaving, the hard access to the labor market, and other vicissitudes that leave us sad for long days.

Phrases: life is hard

In this compilation we are going to know several famous quotes that delve into the obstacles of existence.

1. The Heart does not die when it stops beating. The heart dies when it stops beating.

Very poetic and inspiring, this anonymous phrase proposes passion and illusion as the engine of life.

2. Enthusiasm is contagious. It is difficult to remain neutral or indifferent in the presence of a positive-thinking person. (Denis Waitley)

Optimism takes us a long way. Here are some beautiful positive phrases.

Don't ask for a light load but a strong back.

Your skills can overcome difficulties.

4. Nothing lasts forever, not even your problems.

Even if you are going through difficult times, remember that everything will get back to normal.

5. He who has his own light makes those in the dark uncomfortable.

Don't turn off anyone's light, just shine as brightly as you can.

6. When life is angry with you and beats you with force you should not give up, you must be stronger than life itself and go ahead, if it throws you once, get up twice more, win time to time, so you will become stronger and there will be nothing that can defeat you.

A few words of encouragement for turbulent times.

7. I like people with criteria, those who are not ashamed to admit that they made a mistake or that they don't know something. People who, by accepting their mistakes, genuinely strive not to make them again.

Acknowledging one's ignorance is a sign of wise people.

8. Life has been hard on me, but I have been harder on it.

There is nothing to do but to overcome life's onslaughts, and move on.

9. Life is not easy and being easy is not life because without being difficult then there is no life, the difficult part of life is death and without life there is no death so without being difficult there is no life.

A very useful tongue twister.

10. Difficulties are meant to awaken us, not to discourage us. The human spirit grows through conflict.

Conflict leads us to make decisions.

11. Life is beautiful or sad, it just depends on how we want to see it.

Your perception of things can make you very happy or tremendously unhappy. You choose.

12. Life is sadness, get over it. (Teresa of Calcutta)

There is no choice but to leave sadness behind as soon as possible and start finding the sweet side of existence.

13. Life is short... Smile at those who cry, ignore those who criticize you and be happy with those you care about.

A phrase to attract good vibrations.

14. In life, the saddest thing is not to be unhappy at all, but that we lack very little to be happy and we cannot achieve it.

Let us reflect on what makes us happy and why we sometimes refuse to reach this state of joy.

15. Walking through life I understood that the important thing is not to know what one has; the important thing is to know what one is worth.

16. If you laugh, the world laughs with you; if you cry, you cry alone.

Unfortunately, friends are only there when things go smoothly.

17. Kindness in the father, filial piety in the son; gentleness in the elder brother, humility and respect in the younger; just behavior in the husband, obedience in the wife; human consideration in the elders, respect in the younger; benevolence in rulers, loyalty in ministers and subjects.

An inspiring phrase full of magnanimity.

 

18. There is only one thing sadder than loneliness, and that is to want to be alone.

Some people are so disenchanted with life that they even prefer to seclude themselves in solitude.

19. A calm sea never made a good sailor.

If you want to learn from life, you'd better face difficulties sometime.

20. The worst regret we can have is not for the wrong things we did, but for the right things we did for the wrong people.

Many people will let you down in the course of your life.

21. Sadness that doesn't let me live, dastardly sadness like a limpet on my skin. If I could forget my sadness I'd be left with a cold morning. Please, someone tell me that the sun always rises.

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22. Being prepared is important, knowing how to wait is even more so, but seizing the right moment is the key to life.

Arthur Schnitzer talks about life as a demanding project.

23. I learned that you can't turn back, that the essence of life is to go forward.

A reflection of Agatha Christie.

24. The greatest hindrance of life is the waiting for tomorrow and the loss of today.

Seneca reflects on the transience of time.

25. The least frequent thing in this world is to live. Most people exist, that's all.

Oscar Wilde points out that life does not guarantee that we will live it.

26. We are in such a hurry to do, to write and to let our voice be heard in the silence of eternity, that we forget the only thing that is really important: to live.

Robert Louis Stevenson reminds us what is important.

27. Once the game is over, the king and the pawn return to the same box.

A reflection on life and death.

28. To love and suffer is, in the long run, the only way to live with fulfillment and dignity.

Gregorio Marañón talks about two aspects of life that in his opinion give it content.

29. He who does not live in some way for others does not live for himself either.

Montaigne speaks about the many fronts of daily life.

30. In two words I can sum up how much I have learned about life: Keep going.

Robert Frost talks about resilience.

31. There is much to know, and little to live, and one does not live if one does not know.

Baltasar Gracián talks about an apparent contradiction.

32. Life is a constant process, a continuous transformation in time, a birth, death and rebirth.

Life demands much of us.

33. Let us strive to live decently and let the murmurers say what they please.

They will always talk behind our backs, but we can make it not affect us.

34. Life is a rainbow that includes black.

The Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko points out that in life there are also dark hours.

35. To live is the rarest thing in this world, for most men do nothing but exist.

Another of Oscar Wilde's mythical phrases.

36. Life has not been given to us to be happy, but to deserve to be happy.

Armando Palacio Cortés believes that everything comes with effort.

37. Whoever believes that his own life and that of his fellow men is deprived of meaning is not only unhappy, but barely capable of living.

A quote from Albert Einstein.

38. If man has discovered nothing to die for, he is not worthy to live.

A reflection of Martin Luther King.

39. Life is a game of terrible odds; if it were a gamble you would not intervene in it.

Tom Stoppard, in a not at all optimistic reflection.

40. In life there are no solutions, only forces at work. They must be created, and solutions come.

Solutions must be worked for.

41. For most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

Another reflection of Oscar Wilde.

Live in such a way that you can look anyone in the eye and tell them to go to hell.

Journalist Henry-Louis Mencken invites you to live life dangerously.