Hardest Quotes - Page 38

• To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Grace, Peace With God

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• If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of these peculiar people. Then we can look into the eyes of a centurion and see not a beast but a child of God, and then walk with that child a couple of miles. Look into the eys of tax collectors as they sue you in court; see their poverty and give them your coat. Look in to the eys of the ones who are hardest for you to like, and see the One you love. For God loves good and bad people.

  Shane Claiborne

  Children, Couple, Teaching

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.95, Harper Collins

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• The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.

  Joss Whedon

  World, Lessons, Firsts

  "Fictional character: Wesley Wyndam-Pryce". Angel (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1999–2004.

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• Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out - a long schedule like a federal document, only it's your pain schedule. Endless categories. First, physical causes - like arthritis, gallstones, menstrual cramps. New category, injured vanity, betrayal, swindle, injustice. But the hardest items of all have to do with love. The question then is: So why does everybody persist? If love cuts them up so much.

  Saul Bellow

  Pain, Betrayal, Cutting

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• And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

  Sarah Dessen

  Dad, Firsts, Steps

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “The Truth About Forever”, p.255, Penguin UK

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• The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Pain, Calm, Mask

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest.

  Mother Teresa

  Mistake, Humble, Humility

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• Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.

  Veronica Roth

  Brave, Four, Firsts

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• Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I remember, the things I turn over in my hands, are not houses, bank accounts, prizes or promotions. What I remember is love -- all love -- love of this dirt road, this sunrise, a day by the river, the stranger I met in a café. Myself, even, which is the hardest thing of all to love, because love and selfishness are not the same thing. It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Real, Selfish, Who I Am

  Jeanette Winterson (2004). “Lighthousekeeping”, Fourth Estate (GB)

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• There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Gone, World, Lessons

  "The Border Trilogy".

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• That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Cynical, Indifferent, Loses

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• The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, World, Hardest Thing

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Second Ring of Power”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Wherever you are, be all there." I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.

  Ann Voskamp

  Regret, Worry, Live In The Present

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• You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. "I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather." Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat.

  Robert Jordan

  Eye, Winning, Too Late

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• It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.

  Cheryl Cole

  Broken, Made, Plans

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• It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mistake, Easy, Consequence

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.645, Macmillan

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• I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

  Malcolm X

  Accepting, Humans, Within You

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.173, Ballantine Books

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• And so he did the hardest thing he’d ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.

  Nicole Krauss

  Done, Hats, Hardest Thing

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

  Pete Wentz

  Happiness, Depression, Feelings

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• The first boy was always the hardest.

  Sarah Dessen

  Boys, Firsts

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

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• ...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

  David Foster Wallace

  Reality, Important, Obvious

  David Foster Wallace (2009). “This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Demon, Casts, Persons

  Elizabeth George Speare (1961). “The bronze bow”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The hardest thing is being with other people — it's like they're on a different wavelength, but only you know it. They talk about their lives and what's wrong with them, and you kind of, like, just let them go. It's a whole different language, and you've got to remember that you can only respond in their mother tongue. It's really hard to relate.

  J.R. Ward

  Mother, People, Different

  "Lover at Last: Number 11 in series".

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• The first one is always the hardest," he said. "The first?" "The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.

  Cassandra Clare

  Firsts, One You Love, Easier

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.555, Simon and Schuster

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• Am I just chasing it because it's the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove I can do it?

  Tina Fey

  Want, Chasing, Prove

  "Confessions of a Juggler" by Tina Fey, www.newyorker.com. February 14 & 21, 2011.

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