“I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.” IfsWorldSometimesPainDeathBehindsDyingToughReluctant Author:Alexander Dolgun
“Greater is he who suffers through the pain and comes through the other side improved. Greater is he who accepts discouragement and keeps forward momentum, never retreating. Greater is he who sees the light at the end of the tunnel and keeps their eye on the light. Greater is he who gets knocked off his feet and gets back up, dusts himself off and gets back in the fight. Life is tough, but you are stronger.” EndsLightMotivationalEyePainLife IsSufferingFightingSidesAcceptingGreaterFeetToughStrongerDustGet BackMomentumTunnelsDiscouragementLight At The End Of The TunnelEnd Of The TunnelLife Is ToughForward Momentum Author:Rich Barnes
“All true competitors in any field and walk of life take adversity and are strengthened from it. They develop a reputation of determination and toughness that wins more decisive moments in life than winning shots. Bobby Blair was one tough player. Playing him was like going into a phone booth with an angry bobcat. His massive talent was only surpassed by his courage to hit the big shots under the most pressure. No one ever looked forward to playing him. It was going to be pain and suffering if you wanted to go the distance it took to beat him.” IfsMomentsBigsWantedPainSufferingWinningWalksPlayerTalentFieldsBeatsShotsToughDeterminationPressureAdversityAngryDistancePhonesReputationMassiveCompetitorsToughnessBlairWalks Of LifePain And SufferingBig ShotsDecisive MomentsPhone BoothBobcats Author:Luke Jensen
“In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. Theres a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.” WorldGivingSelfPlayPainBeautifulFormLeftForceResultsGriefEventsFieldsColdDramaToughProfoundPassionateTrackClarityTelling The TruthGravityGlimpseElegantVividExaminationPartingElementalsIndelibleUnderstatedForce FieldsCenter Of Gravity Author:Chase Twichell
“Change is always proceeded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's always tough for me.” PeopleThinkingLittlesPainPersonalityToughPainfulStubbornPainful ThingsPeople Can Change Author:Mel Gibson
“Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this.” WantPainNaturalEmotionalToughInclinationRise AboveEmotional PainAlways Working Author:Taylor Dane
“What it means to be a man is to take on all the emotional pain and work through what you got to work through with the people you love while at the same time getting your business done. And it's tough. I think that most children when they grow up they kind of realize that the things they didn't like about their parents or didn't understand about them they get now and that you know every year you get more responsibilities. You get more overhead. You get more things you got to take care off.” PeopleThinkingMenKindMeanChildrenDoneCarePainParentRealizingResponsibilityGrowing UpEmotionalToughTake CareEmotional Pain Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.” PainShareToughTough Times Author:Theresa May
“Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.” PainEasyPayRiskToughHandleReactionsPipersWimps Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.” PlayMotivationalPainGamesSportsHurtBasketballToughBlockTough Games Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.” WayLooksTwoHardUseHandsPainTogetherPastSpiritMotherFightingWinningSidesBlackClearCuttingHappenedDaughterToughSkinsGoldenMy DaughterTigersPenetrateGiverMy PastMother LoveFiercenessI Will WinTough Skin Book:The Joy Luck Club Source: The Joy Luck Club
“The minute I'm in a little pain ... your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.” LittlesPainFallBoysMinutesToughScaryRoughFalling ApartBad Boy Author:Christine Feehan