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13 of the best book quotes about difficult experiences
01
“It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.”
Nicholas Sparks
author
A Walk to Remember
book
Jamie Sullivan
ᐧ
Landon Carter
characters
experiences
ᐧ
death
ᐧ
life experience
ᐧ
memories
ᐧ
remembering loved ones
ᐧ
difficult experiences
ᐧ
remember
concepts
02
“I had the feeling as in a nightmare of it all being something repeated, something I had been through and that now I must go through again.”
Ernest Hemingway
author
The Sun Also Rises
book
Jake
character
difficult experiences
ᐧ
lost
ᐧ
clarity
concepts
03
“We traveled so far and your friendship meant everything. It was very difficult, but there were moments of beauty. Everything ends. I am not afraid.”
Emily St. John Mandel
author
Station Eleven
book
Kirsten Raymonde
character
end
ᐧ
friendship
ᐧ
difficult experiences
ᐧ
fearless
ᐧ
beauty
ᐧ
growth
concepts
04
“If it wasn’t painfully difficult, you did it wrong!”
Dan Brown
author
Angels and Demons
book
difficult experiences
ᐧ
growing pains
ᐧ
burdens
concepts
05
“I learned a lesson I’d never forget. The lesson was that, when you have setbacks and failures, you can’t overreact to them.”
Angela Duckworth
author
Grit
book
overreact
ᐧ
lessons
ᐧ
failure
ᐧ
difficulties
ᐧ
difficult experiences
concepts
06
“Traumatic stress can spread to anyone with whom the sufferers share their lives. Trauma begets trauma.”
Shaili Jain
author
The Unspeakable Mind
book
difficult experiences
ᐧ
childhood trauma
ᐧ
trauma
ᐧ
family trials
concepts
07
“Adverse childhood experiences are the main determinant of the health and social well-being of the nation.”
Shaili Jain
author
The Unspeakable Mind
book
public health
ᐧ
adversity
ᐧ
childhood
ᐧ
difficult experiences
ᐧ
childhood trauma
concepts
08
“We can endure all kinds of pain. It’s shame that eats men whole.”
Leigh Bardugo
author
Crooked Kingdom
book
enduring
ᐧ
pain and suffering
ᐧ
difficult experiences
concepts
09
“Why is life so difficult? Why can’t we just be ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?”
Beatrice Sparks
author
Go Ask Alice
book
Alice
character
life
ᐧ
be yourself
ᐧ
accepting who you are
ᐧ
difficult experiences
concepts
10
“Cause I’m go’n die soon? That make me a man, Mr. Wiggins?”
Ernest J. Gaines
author
A Lesson Before Dying
book
Jefferson
ᐧ
Grant Wiggins
characters
circumstances
ᐧ
facing death
ᐧ
difficult experiences
ᐧ
maturity
concepts
11
“Once we truly know that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it – then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.”
M. Scott Peck
author
The Road Less Traveled
book
accepting life
ᐧ
embracing struggles
ᐧ
difficult experiences
ᐧ
difficulties
ᐧ
life path
concepts
12
“Taste the berries and forget about falling off the cliff”
Laura Resau
author
Red Glass
book
taste
ᐧ
difficult experiences
ᐧ
forgetting
concepts
13
“You are Britta, you survived Olana, Katar, two mountain winters, and a wolf pack of bandits. You might throw up, but you won’t die now.”
Shannon Hale
author
Princess Academy
book
Miri Larendaughter
ᐧ
Britta Paweldaughter
characters
survivor
ᐧ
difficult experiences
ᐧ
hardships
ᐧ
nervousness
concepts
Recommended quote pages
experiences
death
Jamie Sullivan
Landon Carter
life experience
memories
remembering loved ones
remember
lost
clarity
Jake
end
friendship
fearless
beauty
Kirsten Raymonde
growth
growing pains
burdens
overreact
lessons
failure
difficulties
childhood trauma
trauma
family trials
public health
adversity
childhood
enduring
pain and suffering
life
be yourself
accepting who you are
Alice
circumstances
facing death
maturity
Jefferson
Grant Wiggins
accepting life
embracing struggles
life path
taste
forgetting
Miri Larendaughter
Britta Paweldaughter
survivor
hardships
nervousness
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