“Some situations are just like bad dreams, they’re only unbearable while we’re giving them our full attention.”

“Some teach youwhat can’t be taught,by turning their backon you & helpingyou get internallycloser to everythingyou externallysought.”

“As long as you have hope, you can survive any harsh condition.”

“To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.”

“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.”

“Hope is victory in any hardship.”

“Hope is the discipline of hardship.”

“Hardship is the discipline of life.”

“Only hope can keep a man alive in times of hardship.”

“With hope, we can endure any hardship.”

“Though you may hear me holler,And you may see me cry–I’ll be dogged, sweet baby,If you gonna see me die.”

“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.”

“Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.”

“Choose happiness despite hardship.”

“Who’s happy here? It’s all sham and fakery,” Nimmo said laconically, not bothering to look up from the magazine. “No one’s happy here. It’s not possible. Arre yaar, think about it, what are the things you normal people get unhappy about? I don’t mean you, but grown-ups like you–what makes them unhappy? Price-rise, children’s school admissions, husbands’ beatings, wives’ cheatings, Hindu-Muslim riots, Indo-Pak war–outside things that settle down eventually. But for us the price-rise and school-admissions and beating-husbands and cheating-wives are all inside us. The riot is inside us. The war is inside us. Indo-Pak is inside us. It will never settle down. It can’t.”