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• The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god's hands, not yours. page~147

  Dan Millman

  Children, Reality, Creating

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• My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Mother, Hard Work, Heaven

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• Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East to West or from island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round. There's no proper term for it - original sin seems too harsh; maybe original trauma would be better.

  Zadie Smith

  Children, Moving, Islands

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White teeth”

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• There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wall, Army, Hands

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.339, Broadview Press

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• When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Love, Depressing, Kindness

  "History of the Church". Book by Joseph Smith, Jr., 5:23 - 24, June 9, 1842.

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• No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.

  Robert A. Burton

  Good Life, Humility, Reflection

  Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.162, Macmillan

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• If they can’t survive alone for four days once a year, they deserve to die. (Acheron) That’s harsh, for you. (Dante) Harsh? Tell you what, you take my phone and skim through the three thousand phone calls I get every day and night and see how harsh I am. I truly hate modern technology and phones in particular. I haven’t had a full four hours of sleep in over fifty years. ‘Ash, I broke a toenail, help me. Ash, my head hurts, what should I do?’ (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Hate, Sleep

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• Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

  Saint Augustine

  Discipline, Curiosity, Values

  "Confessions".

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• Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.

  Ian Fleming

  Men, Cold, Sentiments

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. if they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by concerns: a terrible fate! The body is treated in a very harsh fashion. Courageous men are seen by everyone under Heaven as worthy, but this doesn't preserve them from death. I am not sure I know whether this is sensible or not.

  Zhuangzi

  Fashion, Fate, Men

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• Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  Mother Teresa

  Father, Lying, Thinking

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• You don’t trust any man, Ephani. (Danger) And neither should you, little sister. Take a bit of Amazon advice. Ride him into the ground all night long, then slide a blade between his ribs come morning. (Ephani) That's harsh. (Alexion) So is life. (Ephani)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Morning, Night, Men

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• Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Light, Doe, Disaster

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• As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

  Dorothy Day

  Relationship, Dream, Action

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• Our underclothes were woolen vests and knickers and an extraordinary, but apparently necessary, concoction called a liberty bodice, which had no freedom about it, so how it got its name I cannot imagine. It was made of some harsh stuff, with here and there straps and buttons that did nothing.

  Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

  Fashion, Names, Clothes

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• I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

  Jane Campion

  Growing Up, Men, Thinking

  "Cannes 2012: Why have no female film directors been nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes?" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

  Eric Alterman

  Criticism, News, Matter

  "Think Again: Jon Stewart and Chris Wallace: Network on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2011.

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• Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Enlightenment, Firsts

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Don't get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Trying, Use

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• Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so much greater than they are; it offers an environment where they can easily contemplate infinity and eternity.

  Richard Louv

  Beautiful, Nature, Games

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Critics, Knows

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• Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Growing Up, Italian, Use

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• Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

  Margaret Cho

  Regret, Congratulations, Sleep

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• Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Book, Reality, Diaries

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• Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Hollywood, Stories, Levels

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 29, 2010.

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