Hardest Quotes - Page 33

• What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Parenting, Inspire

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 21, 2011

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• You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, First Love, Boys

  "That Summer". Book by Sarah Dessen, 1996.

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• The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.

  Norman Maclean

  Cases, Behinds, Conscience

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.

  Joanna Russ

  Writing, Adventure, Men

  Joanna Russ (2005). “The Two of Them”, p.8, Wesleyan University Press

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• Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Telling The Truth, Hardest Thing

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.107, Penguin

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• Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times already – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.

  Harlan Ellison

  Book, Writing, World

  "Quit Your Day Job!: How to Sleep Late, Do What You Enjoy, and Make a Ton of Money as a Writer". Book by Jim Denney and James D. Denney, 2003.

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• Sometimes forgiveness is the hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.

  Maya Banks

  Giving, Sometimes, Hardest Thing

  Maya Banks (2007). “Love Me, Still”, p.45, Samhain Publishing

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• One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Honesty, World, Helpful

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• The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the dreary silence of her day. Sometimes I see an expression on Clare’s face that is like a closed door. She has gone inside the room of her mind and is sitting there knitting or something. I’ve discovered that Clare likes to be alone. But when I return from time traveling she is always relieved to see me.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Home, Train Of Thought, Knitting

  "The Time Traveller’s Wife". Book by Audrey Niffenegger, 2003.

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• It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

  Pat Barker

  Pain, Empathy, Goes On

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• Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

  Dean Koontz

  Teacher, Loss, Said

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1003, Bantam

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• A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Men, Giving

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• We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Soccer, Art, Writing

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

  Julian Barnes

  Simple, Purpose, Clarity

  Julian Barnes (1985). “Flaubert's parrot”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

  Confucius

  Cat, Dark, Black

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• Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jobs, Hardest Job, People

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• With a cold"--she spoke evenly, lowering her eyes a little--"now is the hardest time. Maybe even harder than dying. But this is probably as bad as it can get. You might come to fear the next time you get a cold; it will be as bad as this, but if you just hold steady, it won't be. For the rest of your life. That's how it works. You could take the negative view and live in fear: Will it happen again? But it won't hurt so much if you just accept it as a part of life." With that she looked up at me, smiling.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Hurt, Eye, Views

  Banana Yoshimoto (2006). “Kitchen”, p.139, Grove Press

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• The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or another, desperately crave attention

  David Sedaris

  Drama, Hair, People

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• Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.

  Po Bronson

  Book, Horizon, Classroom

  Po Bronson (2013). “What Should I Do With My Life?”, p.382, Random House

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• The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.

  Deborah Smith

  Memories, Pieces, Might

  Deborah Smith (2011). “A Place to Call Home”, p.4, Bantam

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• Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, People, Unattractive

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• I listened for the voice I knew so well, the one I always heard at the beginning. Good girl, Macy! You're doing great! You know the first steps are the hardest part! They were. Sometimes I felt so out of sync, it was all could do not to quit after a few strides. But I kept on, as I did now. I had to, to get to the next part, this part, where I finally caught up with Wes, my shadow aligning itself with his, an dhe turned to look at me, pushing his hair our of his eyes.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Eye, Hair

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• Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

  Fred Rogers

  Letting Go, Skills, Roots

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.41, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Breathing, Eating, Wintergirls

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.232, Scholastic UK

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