Hardest Quotes - Page 39

• Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in its turn soon begins to sweat for something to quench its heat, and the mellowest of autumns will tire of gentility at last, and ache for a quick sharp frost to kill its fruitfulness. Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.

  Clive Barker

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  Clive Barker (1991). “The Hellbound Heart”, Voyager

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• Life isn’t supposed to be easy. Ever. But with the hardest challenges go the greatest rewards. And every incredible moment of my life came only after I did something that made my gut clench with fear. - Caleb

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Challenges, Rewards, Incredibles

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.227, Macmillan

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• ...In Paris she found Magnus, who was living in a garret apartment and paiting, an occupation for which he had no aptitude whatsoever. He let her sleep on a mattress by the window, and in the night, when she woke up screaming for Will, he came and put his arms around her, smelling of turpentine. "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

  Princess, Sleep, Night

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• The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching.

  Pete Wentz

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm trying my hardest to get you so wrapped up in me you never leave.

  Abbi Glines

  Trying My Hardest, Trying

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• Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.

  Elif Safak

  Flow, Firsts, Steps

  "The Forty Rules of Love". Book by Elif Safak, March, 2009.

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• Those that are the hardest to love, need it the most.

  Pattie Mallette

  Needs, Peaceful Warrior

  Twitter post from Oct 06, 2012

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• The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. Suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. The fear, the nervousness, is still there, but it is joined by a new confidence. All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.

  David Levithan

  Keys, Locks, Pages

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.34, Egmont UK

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• But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this, it feels as if you're denying any value at all that our lives may have--and that saps the spirit we need to soldier on. The hardest ordeal for us is the idea that we are causing grief for other people. We can put up with our own hardships okay, but the thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.

  Naoki Higashida

  Stress, Grief, Ideas

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• It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.

  Helen Mirren

  Maturity, Eight, Years

  Helen Mirren (2011). “In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Today it may seem that your anger is very strong, how can meditation break it? But it breaks - it has always broken. Rock is very strong and meditation is very delicate, but this is the mystery of life - the continuity of the delicate can break the strongest and the hardest.

  Rajneesh

  Strong, Anger, Rocks

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• In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.

  Thomas Kyd

  Time, Pain, Fall

  c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

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• Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Down And, Littles

  1592 Messenger to Richard telling of his fatherYork's death. HenryVI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.54-5.

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• I naturally have an athletic build, thick legs yet a lean upper body. I filled out much later than all my classmates, and I thank God for it now. I had to learn to fix what I can and accept what I cannot fix...That's probably the hardest thing.

  Keri Hilson

  Beauty, Filled Out, Athletic

  "Celebrity Body-Image Confessions: How They Turned Insecurities Into What They Love Most About Their Bods" by Anne Jensen, www.glamour.com.

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• The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.

  Erin Gray

  Motivational, Fitness, Exercise

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• Of all affliction taught a lover yet,
  'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Affliction, Taught

  Alexander Pope, “Eloisa To Abelard”

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• Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as
  an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce.

  Will Smith

  Marriage, Divorce, Giving

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• The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

  Jo Jones

  Music, Play, People

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• One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand-to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Nature, Lying

  John Burroughs (1924). “Complete writings of John Burroughs”

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• It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Smile, Giving, Add

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• They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Change, Men

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.290

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• The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

  e. e. cummings

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Loving Life

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• The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

  Simeon Strunsky

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Feb 02, 2012

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• Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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