Quotation Explorer - 'Hard'

It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am. - Muhammad Ali

When living and loving could be so easy, why do we make it so hard? - Marty Rubin

Life is the most amazing game. Play hard with a deep love so that you may enjoy it. - Debasish Mridha

It's hard to wake up when you don't know you're sleeping. - Walter E. Jacobson, M.D.

If this was easy it wouldn't be so hard. - Yogi Berra

When you run out of love, it’s really hard to understand whether you have lost your heart or your heart has lost you… - Munia Khan

It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them. - Elizabeth George

It takes a lot of courage to push through hard times. Never give up. Good things are coming your way. - Robert Tew

You strive hard to become a better version of your previous self. Never make the fallacy of thinking that you know everything. - Avijeet 'Musafir' Das

I am not an angry girlBut it seems like I’ve got everyone fooledEvery time I say something they find hard to hearThey chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear - Ani DiFranco

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. - Albert Einstein

If the hard workers be ever appraised honestly by the organisation’s head, then the history would have never witnessed the case of the hands being cut-off of the workforce who created the huge structure. - Anuj Somany

Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society. A culture of work. A culture of labour. A culture of diligence. A culture of hard work. A culture of perseverance. A culture of persistence. A culture of DIGNITY OF LABOUR. - Sunday Adelaja

Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this passion that has been ignited inside of them that are true writers. - Brian A. McBride

I do not know the answers to life's hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that's sufficient...for now. - Toni Sorenson

I often find human behavior amusing. Like having a full refrigerator of food to eat yet buying fast food instead. If you learn to conquer the two big "N" words. Niceties vs Necessities. You might actually have some funds for the hard times that come. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

A question wells up inside me, a question so big it blocks my throat and makes it hard to breathe. Somehow I swallow it back, finally choosing another. "Are memories such an important thing?""It depends," she replies, and closes her eyes. "In some cases, they're the most important thing there is. - Haruki Murakami

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. - Frank Wilczek

It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day. - Darby Conley

The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment. - Elizabeth Aston

The whole hard work in achieving any goal is not in the means of achieving greater heights, but in the courage in fulfilling the simple yet daunting tasks. - Chinonye J. Chidolue

Love is a word hard to express, a feeling easy to express and a word hard to take, only the people who try it know the meaning and how to tell it wisely. - Auliq Ice

'Tis hard if all is false that I advance A fool must now and then be right, by chance. - William Cowper

sometimes, you feel that you’re unwanted, in someone’s life when you’re actually the best thing happened in their entire life, it’s just too hard, to recognize if they really want you or if they’re pretending to want you. - Amna.s

Find something you love and go for it with all your heart. No excuses, no plan B. Never settle for anything less than you know you can do.It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it. - Charlotte Eriksson

Making a home is hard work, and for some reason it's underappreciated. It's way to make sense of things. - Erin Boyle

Do we miss out on love because we are working so hard? Or are we working so hard because we missed out on love? - Kate McGahan

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it? - L. M. Montgomery

The hard time is when people remembers you, because you need to be with them and its easy when they forgets you. - Nutan Bajracharya

Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple reproducers, for which divine Providence solely intended us, less monotonous and less hard. - Guy de Maupassant

The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it. - John Eliot, Ph.D.

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. - Babe Ruth

I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about. - Oliver

...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. - Woodrow Wilson

Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to. - Carl Van Doren

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human. - Hugh Macleod

Everybody is fighting a hard battle that you know nothing about, never give up with yours. - Auliq Ice

It is hard to say anything as true as saying nothing. - Marty Rubin

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out? - Ian Wallace

Pale winter sun Is beatin' the ground Why'm I throwin' away The best thing that I've found My young heart's in tatters and I'm sureThat it will be a long time healing It's so hard to see what I'm doing this forWhen loneliness is all that I'm feeling - David Gray

Everybody says life is hard. I'm surprised nobody makes effort to not create any lives. - Orlyze Simons

Life is hard. Find some really good people to walk through it with. It makes things a little easier. - Andrena Sawyer

Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil. - Anonymous

When you try hard to get something, but you gain nothing, this is what's called depression. - Al-Hanouf Halawi

Everything is hard before it is easy - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let's dispel a little myth. Working hard is NOT the key to success. It may be an ingredient, but it isn't the main one. - Tim Fargo

We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy - but because they are hard! Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win! - John F. Kennedy

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it. - Lionel Messi

Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable. - Rosen Topuzov

Look out how you use proud words.When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling -Look out how you use proud words. - Carl Sandburg

Smile even when you're going through some hard times. - Alcurtis Turner

Peace may be hard to achieve, but is possible with small yet essential steps that are guided by courage and sufficient commitment. - Widad Akreyi

It's hard to sleep when you have thirty two million quids worth of stolen jewellery hidden under the mattress. - Peter Houston

Critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. - Ambrose Bierce

There is no substitute for Hard Work - Sham Hinduja

Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it! - Deyth Banger

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. - Anne Sexton

Every single dayI find it hard to sayI could be yours aloneYou will see somedayThat all along the wayI was yours to hold. - Skillet

It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. - C. S. Lewis

Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end. - Sanjo Jendayi

Letting go is hard, but always worth your efforts. - Anamika Mishra

Its true that love doesn't come easily. Its equally hard to just let it go. Ironically, its just not in your hand. - Heenashree Khandelwal

The hard thing isn't getting what you want, it's knowing what you want. - Marty Rubin

We all used to try so hard to fit in. We wanted to look exactly alike, do all the same things, practically be the same person, but when we weren't looking that all changed....what the summer actually brought was independence from each other. - Now and Then

Human behavior makes it hard to believe in human intelligence. - Marty Rubin

Enemies and easy to get and even easier to keep. But friends are hard to get and even harder to keep. - Sneha Abraham

I sleep hard; I dream harder! - Maria Bamford

Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it.And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part. - Seth Godin

She is a woman. No matter how hard you think she has grown, she always has her softer parts. Feel her there. - Akif Kichloo

Hard work pays off!' - JL - Jen LeFever

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. - Anna Quindlen

I bet all I had on a thing called love; guess in the end it wasn't enough. And it's hard to watch you leave right now; I'm gonna have to learn to let you go somehow. - Carrie Underwood

Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don’t think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back. - Steve Goodier

No matter how hard we try, we are at best imperfect people. When we allow sin, we allow our imperfections to show. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Hard times prepare us for hopeful future. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Having sex with her had been a catalyst, new flesh for the virus to feed on. No matter how hard he tried to block her out, she was always there at the back of his mind. Calling him. Begging him to go to her. - Jacqueline Francis - The Journal

Generally I try to avoid discussing consciousness, since it's, like, hard. - Robert Kurzban

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. - Woody Allen

Impossibility only lasts until you find new unbelievable hard evidences. - Toba Beta

speak hard, steal the air. - Anne McCaffrey

I tried to curl around him, holding him with my arching body. His mouth was slow and searching, the kisses hard at first, then loosening as if unraveling from their own heat. The pleasure thickened, hard flushes rising through me, bringing the desire to full-slip ripeness. - Lisa Kleypas

Horror is a curiousity, it's used we to go over on real horror it just prepare us for the hard battles. To laugh at somebody's harm... there is even and scientific explanation. - Deyth Banger

So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi - John Green

From listening and silence can be learn a lot of, but these skills to be learn that's the hard and complicated work... - Deyth Banger

Hard work guarantees you nothing, but without it you don't stand a chance - Pat Riley

Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being the evil undead wasn't fun anymore. For one thing, it was increasingly hard to get a library card. - Sharon Ashwood

Play life on hard. Easy might be safer but where is the fun in that? - Neila Rey

I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die. - Meriwether Lewis

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. - H. L. Mencken

So many people will tell you no, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that you just smile and tell them watch me. Learn to take rejection as motivation to prove people wrong. Be unstoppable. Refuse to give up, no matter what. It’s the best skill you can ever learn. - Charlotte Eriksson

Work hard AND smart. - Mike Rowe

Don't force to become the top, but loosen up to be the top....(as in don't try hard when people are before you but be glad... instead of working up your energy for the highest honor) - Florie Jo Alicer

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair. - Taylor Swift

When you step up to success, use hard work and excellence as your rocket for winning and achievement. - Mark F. LaMoure

It must feel good to have someone trying so hard to keep you in any circumstances. I wish I have one too, at least I know how does it feels to have someone wanting you more than anything, other than making you cry alone in despair. - Lee NR

It's hard to pretend you're OK. Especially when you're all by urself, alone. :'( - Marlon Roxas

Hard times nurture the beauty of hope. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off. - Joan F. Marques

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion. - Simon Sinek

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent. - Sara Sheridan

I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down. - Mia Hamm

How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake? - Sara Gruen

Hello, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never fulfill. I am always taunting you, regardless of how hard you try, regardless of how much you hope. - Nathan Filer

According to the science writer Philip Ball, when it was pointed out to musicologist Deryck Cookethat Slavic and much Spanish music use minor keys for happy music, he claimed that their liveswere so hard that they didn’t really know what happiness was anyway. - David Byrne

Jealously would kill you from inside, if you water the plant of jealousy with anger instead of hard work - Paolo Coelho

A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie. - Kathryn L. Nelson

When you try hard to find happiness for other, you will unknowingly find yourself on the island of happiness. - Debasish Mridha

Work hard to achieve your dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Trust in this life is a hard thing to earn and keep. - Jonathan Burkett

Pride is a hard thing to let go but is it really worth your all - Joyce Guo

Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Sometimes I work so long and so hard that I have no idea what day or time it is. I forget to eat. I don't get ready for the day. I fall asleep on the couch and wake up and get back to work. - Richie Norton

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. - Immanuel Kant

As a HARD ROCK hit the wolf, he crawled back to his favorite beach to gathered sources from his 3S of happiness, sea, sand and sun... A triangle with HER inside - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. - Stephen Fry

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Oh, I know that she's disgusted,cause she's feeling so abused.She gets tired of the lust,but it's so hard to refuse. - Elvis Costello

I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know. - Bill W.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. - Sarah Kay

Respect people who never afraid of failure and working hard to achieve goal. But I respect more those who support them in this situation. - Gargi Vyas

It's hard enough bein' people as it is, without other people coming and messin' you around. - Terry Pratchett

It hard to stop the person determined to press onwards. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. - Peter Drucker

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

For some people, life is boring. For some it is exciting. For some life is wrestling while for others it is dancing. For some people life is a long hard reality, and for others it is an ephemeral dream. Life is how you make it or how you take it. - Debasish Mridha

The first time Enokizu met me, the first words he said were: "You look like an ape."When someone is that outrageously rude, it's hard to be angry. - Natsuhiko Kyogoku

It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster. - Ryan North

smiling while crying is not so hard....the damn hard is...hiding tear drops, with smiles - Arafath Shanas

Hard fun is, of course, the idea that we take pleasure in accomplishing something difficult: the joy in meeting and mastering a challenge. As a result, when someone is doing something that is hard fun, moment by moment it looks more like "work" than "fun," but the net effect is pleasurable overall. - David Williamson Shaffer

Being your age is hard enough without having to act it. - P.K. Shaw

The most successful people started from NOTHING... they didn't wait for the opportunity to knock but created the opportunity on their own... worked hard and made history. - Hyacil Han

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. - Søren Kierkegaard

I just realized that sleep sometimes is the only precious wage for the hard working man. - Akilnathan Logeswaran

saying goodbye isnt hard, but saying it to something you care about is whats hard, because you dont want to forget the emmotional pain and happiness they caused in you're life. - Annoymous

Choose well the people around you, friends and everyone else around you. They can teach you lesson, some people give it like this other give it by the hard way. - Deyth Banger

People are mystery as far you go deeper as more mystery you can find. New generation, new tricks, new misteries, new problems... people are hard to be understand as deeper you go as more missunderstand the stuff. - Deyth Banger

Hard times lifts the seeking souls to higher spiritual realms. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Anything in life is possible when you work hard to achieve it. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it. - Bill Barich

It is hard to think differently. To change your world, change your thoughts. - Debasish Mridha

When you step up to being excellent, use hard work and determination as the powerful force they are. By using these ideas, over time they will reward you with sparkling success. - Mark F. LaMoure

When failure is hard to take, pain becomes unbearable and you don’t see any way out. Hang on there, its darkest hour that indicates the advent of light. - Evan Smith

It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out.

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work. - Michael Jordan

Dear my little children I work hard so as to make your lives better. so don't rest until you do thesame to your own children. - Hamzatribah

Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to tell too much. We aren’t satisfied unless at the end of the story the characters are lying there, panting. - Roman Payne

Whatever unspeakable act done to you, write it down, read it, then ball up the paper & sling it hard into the wall. Expunge it from your soul - Ace Antonio Hall

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. - H. L. Mencken

In hard times, hang on hope. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. - Julia Cameron

You build a confident: "Can Do Attitude," by practicing to be excellent. Since you earn success by being determined, higher willpower is earned. Be the best. Raise yourself to excellence, by writing your goals and working hard on them. Drive yourself to success. - Mark F. LaMoure

Hard work increases the probability of serendipity. - Ken Poirot

it is hard not to count the hoursi have left with you.it is hard to be here now--knowing everything between uswill come to an end. - Ava

It's a difficult truth to face that some people choose to define themselves by the pain they feel or the wrongs they've suffered. They're not going through hard times so much as making all times hard. - Dani Harper

Any marriage is hard work. But what I always say is, "Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty. - Kevin Bacon

your lack of hard work fails your destiny and not the destiny fails you. - irrfan ishaq

All their life, people work hard to earn money, and they never earn enough money to fulfill their dreams. Is this a paradox? - Saurabh Sharma

Mighty hard to tell the people you love you're a failure. - Laura Moncur

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. - Oprah Winfrey

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout. - Henry David Thoreau

Tried a bit just to fit in,To find the hard wayThat all I was a fill in - Nirab karki

Success depends on your hard work, it's a very funny joke. - Tanmaya Guru

Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. - Lao-Tzu

Loving someone isn’t a hard task, it’s not a chore, you don’t wake up one day and decide to break their heart because you got all hot and bothered, that doesn’t happen! he boomed. - Holly Hood

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. - Sidney Sheldon

No matter what it is that you want to do, you should dream as big as you can and go for it. Don't let anyone tell you that it can't be done because that's the worst advice. Do whatever you want to do and hard work will make it pay off. - Logan Henderson

If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Hard work's a good distraction. - Scott Westerfeld

the problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths - rassool jibraeel snyman

The grace of silence-enduring hard times. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever it is that you want to do, do it today because you can handle the pain of trying hard now but you won’t be able to handle the pain of regret later. - Dhaval Gajera

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard. - Steve Carell

Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.Presoak it in dance, music and art. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen

It is so hard to stay afloat in a world that just wants to drown you. - Schuyler Peck

Choosing the right career is the most difficult task for a person who is multi-talented and versatile. Because its hard to decide what field to go into, when you are good at too many things. - Saad Salman

Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control. - Democritus

Never give up on your goals or dreams, no matter how hard the challenges might seem". - Cliff Hannold

I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth. - Lady Gaga

Jews don't go camping. Life is hard enough as it is.

Ranting about her being hard to understand? Wait until you lose her. You will clearly understand, what an effortless power a woman has! - Manasa Rao Saarloos

No matter how hard life is, don't lose hope - Zayn Malik

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People don’t believe that hard work is worth it. - Sunday Adelaja

Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard. - Kevin Durant

If you are planning to work very hard, start working by screwing around! Lounge about at home; fool around in the streets or in the fields! Laziness will fill you with energy! - Mehmet Murat ildan

It's hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember. - Sujish Kandampully

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else. - Teresa Heinz Kerry

Why is it so hard? It's hard because it matters, I think. - Mina Holmes, "Small Bump" Songs of my Selfie

being different can work for the individual who are comfortable with themselves, and most importantly work hard to achieve greatness. - Ellen J. Barrier

I've worked hard to remember it...The problem is I'm not sure what's real memory and what's my brain filling in details, like a guy whose heart stops and he thinks he sees a bright light. Except I'm sure of my bright light. - Phil Klay

I’ve been working hard to become the kind of man she needs, the kind of man she already believes me to be. - Colleen Houck

When you patiently examine the beautiful skin of the leopard after it’s hard day's search for the meat it enjoys, you shall not only see the sweat that went into its search for the meat, but you shall also realize the scent of the sweat beneath the beautiful skin. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The hurt, resentment, the revenge, the pride, and regret are thrown hard and fast like snowballs in the winter. Some major ones hit hard; some minor ones just roll off, while others stick for an elongated time…as long as we stay in the cold frosty air of not letting go. - Wes Adamson

How simple our Lord's word is, Love thy neighbor. Just think how that word has been twisted around, just because it's hard to love thy neighbor. - Edgar Maass

Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there. - Timothy J. Keller

It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity. - Donna Lynn Hope

We are humans first and the law always protects our basic human rights, but survival always remains a chance for any of us to go through hard times and make it through the day. - Auliq-Ice

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. - Horace

A universal truth that most mature women have learned, often the hard way.... When choosing a mate, keep in mind, only nature has the ability to turn sand into pearls. If the relationship isn't happy, healthy, or working, move on... unless of course you prefer sand. - K.E. Garvey

I could give up, it's the easiest optionBut what would I achieve? Many sleepless nights holding regretOf all I didn't seek, That option will never exist to me; My dreams are far too real, Down the hard road I findMy place in the world; the closest To home Ill ever feel. - Nikki Rowe

When something flipping out to the worse, don't feel bad. But be strong and make yourself hard so that the situations stop taking chance to hurt you. - Giridhar Alwar

It's hard to answer the question "what's wrong?" when nothing is right. - Anonymous

If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall,people will think you're drunk. - Conan O'Brien

Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him. - C.S. Lewis

I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are - Taylor Swift

What you choose to do in this life will surely affect you in the next... Just do good, even when it's very hard to do so. It's your soul that's on the line. - R.D. Gennari

As a HARD ROCK hit the wolf, he crawled back to his favorite beach to gathered sources from his 3S of happiness , sea, sand and sun to refresh his battle faced body ... A triangle with the SHE wolf inside, the ONE that combined all the above to rejuvenate his soul - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

Everyone realized that Computervision stock was the golden goose. But one grabbed the leg, another grabbed a wing, another got the neck, all pulling hard, and they realize now they could kill the goose if they keep this up.

Yes, writing is that easy. Yes, writing is that hard. But if you want to do it you can. Only you can stop you. - R.M. Donaldson

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. - Malcolm Gladwell

Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living. - Annie F. Downs

Have you failed today? If not, you might not be trying hard enough. Failure is a part of growth, a stepping stone towards success. In its own right it is a small victory and should be celebrated as such. So I ask you again, have you failed today? - Shane E. Bryan

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

Making hard decisions in life to accomplish the dreams, It requires a gut from within. - Mohith Agadi

Stop praying that God should make you a leader if you are not ready to do hard work. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Accepting your flaws is a hard thing to do when you're constantly reminded of them. - Auliq Ice

We all suffer ills at the hands of others; however, reactions to these injustices differ like night and day. Many seek to punish the world for their suffering, but some work hard to save the world from experiencing similar grief. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Never get married while you're going to college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. - Kin Hubbard

The locust has no kingJust noise and hard languageThey talk me over - David Eugene Edwards

It is sometimes hard to be a family. - Maurice Sendak

Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit. - Andre Dubus

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. - Jeff Bezos

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. - Kurt Vonnegut

It’s hard to care for a person when you know that one more step forward will make you fall in love and one step back ruins your friendship. - Berry Quotes

When you have knowledge, patience, and passion, and pair those with hard work, you will find success -- but don’t ever forget about kindness. - Adam Smith

My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and fearlessness and hard work, looks down on me today with great pride. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

You shouldnt try too hard to be happy, if you find yourself doing this know that you are with the wrong people, at the wrong times and in the wrong places and that is not in line with God's plan for you. - Lorato Mosimakoko

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer. - Sandra Brown

Be thankful for the efforts of people who worked hard to get you where you are; you should not take it for granted and treat them with indifference. - Roy T. Bennett

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. - Publilius Syrus

[On school uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German. - George Carlin

When God calls you to build 100 castles on earth and you built 98, take the 99th as if it's the begining of your work and work hard to finish the race with all excellence. Go the extra mile! - Israelmore Ayivor

Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve. - Petar Dunov

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good. - Dejan Stojanovic

Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to. - Carl Clinton Van Doren

Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll. - Helen Hanson

Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed. - Coleman Cox

I believe in living in the moment. To keep working hard in all that I’m doing. Achieve my goals and leave the rest to God. - Shallu Jindal

Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter at the computer screen. - Katrina Monroe

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions. - Ha Jin

Fail hard, fail fast and fail often is the only way to get involved with real innovation in this fast changing world. Instead, most companies are trying to prevent failure at all cost, which makes them very unadaptive and the failures very expensive. - Danny Mekić

It takes a lot of hard work to 'get there,' and once you get there it takes even more hard work to stay there. - Sophia Amoruso

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' - Don Marquis

The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space. - Arthur C. Clarke

Our people must once again realize that it is only hard work and excellence that leads to wealth creation. - Sunday Adelaja

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. - Theodore Roosevelt

Too much beauty can be hard to bear. - Nancy Garden

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. - Margaret Mead

Walking thru this graveyard, I realize times were never really hard. We live, we love, we let it go. The world ain't changed me at all. - Kevin Dalton

Listen to life story of few people, made me think 'human being are prefer to leave than to be replaced..it take years to recover the pain..once recovered and they accept you, appreciate it...its hard to trust other people twice (Ejump,2016) - Ejump Schiffler

Tears of my Hard Work,are enough to fill the Ocean of my Dreams. - Shashank Rayal

It is difficult to describe the peace that comes with giving yourself permission to know what you know. To have hard, complicated realities staring at you and be able to raise your head and look back at them with a steady gaze, scared maybe, grieved perhaps, but straight on and unwavering - Valerie Tarico

The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun. - Jenny Bicks

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion. - Tina Fey

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process. - Randall Munroe, xkcd

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. - Alan W. Watts

It's hard to catch up when you are running second in a race with time. - Avinash Rao

The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.

When you are in the middle of a storm cloud it's hard to think outside of it, but the only way out of the storm is to ride through it and things will be a lot clearer on the other side - Jodi Ann Bickley

Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys! - Mehmet Murat ildan

To get to know yourself better, examine what you really want from life and become true to yourself, Be clear and honest and work hard to make it. - Auliq Ice

Brains first and then Hard Work.

I'm sarcastic and facetious. It's hard to find those people on the first encounter. I can be nice, but I don't want nice friends. I want funny, gregarious, sarcastic, and smart friends. It's so nice to hear you're not alone. - Bertsche

As for me horror is the genre which makes my life more interesting, mysteries my life to be something like a riddle which people go and hard go outside...But the music build my personality! - Deyth Banger

It's hard, omigod remember? Being a kid. - Erica Lorraine Scheidt

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. - Kurt Vonnegut

Forgiveness is not the act of doing nothing to the one who hurts you. It's easy to do nothing, but hard to forgive. - Ogwo David Emenike

The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' -- is only one example of a challenge where hard work is paying off and science does not need to accept the false explanations peddled by religions. - Peter Atkins

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch. - Gabrielle Giffords

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. - Heraclitus

Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia. - James Thornton

We had a threesomeYou, me and my depressionDepression fucks hard - Benedict Smith

Art is seldom the result of true genius; rather, it is the product of hard work and skills learned and tenaciously practiced by regular people. - Sally Mann

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up - Babe Ruth

Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real. - Lisa Schroeder

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard. - Glenn T. Seaborg

The secret to success is belief and hard work. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Sealing your lips makes your eyes talk Truth creeps beneath your lame feet’s walk Knees stiffen when blood vessels stalk A pounding heart’s lies hard as rock - Munia Khan

Every problem can be solved, you just have to work hard enough, or sometimes be lucky enough to find the solution. - Laurie W.J.N.

Imagine and see yourself at your best. Change yourself with hard work, to become the excellent person you want to be. - Mark F. LaMoure

It's hard to work in groups when you're omnipotent.

So many things could happen with a hard work".... - Harry S. Vested Jr.

Whatever you do, do not finish the hard work of developing your gifts only to leave it unexpressed. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

If you do not completely accept yourself, you can not love yourself fully. It would be hard to love anything unconditionally. - Avis J. Williams

It's hard to disappoint me. Anything is fine. - Marty Rubin

It’s hard to be present whenyour attention is sufferinginformation overload.Switch off and just sit still. - Domonique Bertolucci

It's hard to get enough of something that almost works. - Vincent Felitti, MD

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. - Ulysses S. Grant

And you know what the worst thing was?The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried. - Jack McCarthy

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. - Lucille Ball

After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] "How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived. - Ronald C. White Jr.

Myriam and I are both hard workers, and together we make a strong team. We found ways to make a living, educate our children, and to take care of my parents until their last days, and we managed to have fun doing it. ...The friendships we made along the way were the biggest treasure of all. - Marc Ashton

We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than vising to the challenges of the age. - Barack Obama

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. - Horace

Dream Big, Work Hard, Be Kind - Craig Lew

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. - Anna Louise Strong

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. - Unknown

Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it. - Julie Andrews Edwards

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. - Carl Sandburg

Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn’t want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didn’t feel so good today. - Rollo Romig

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. - Coco Chanel

The hard part is putting one word after another. - Jo Linsdell

The distance between success and your dreams is hard work. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Even though life is hard, never make your life miserable, stressed and out weighed, you will burry yourself in stress. - Auliq Ice

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way. - Jane Goodall

Whether you dream big or dream small, chances are your dream will come true if you believe in it and really work hard on it. - Nabil N. Jamal

the hardest thing in life is to accept the facts that are hard to accept and to accept the things you can't accept. - yassi tan

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. - Unknown

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Ignorance is a sickness every person should avoid.. as once you are infected by it.. it becomes a morbid rotation that sometimes can be hard to escape from. - Manos Abou Chabke

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest. - Pearl Bailey

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. - Michelangelo Buonarroti

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie. - Unknown

In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring! - Mehmet Murat ildan

no matter how hard your shell is on the out side you will aways find some one who loves you - Kelly Armstrong

Reading is a test, Its test like a water drop.Famine like you din't even saw it, but when you try to read a book its hard to take a startup but then as long as you read it you getting inside of it! - shuhab

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel -- as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can -- then I am nothing. - Elizabeth Janeway

It always feels good and comforting to relax whilst there is work to be done but, it feels fulfilling to work hard, overcome slothfulness and challenges with tenacity and achieve your aim when you should have relaxed - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There's gon' be some stuff you gon' seethat's gon' make it hard to smile in the future.But through whatever you see,through all the rain and the pain,you gotta keep your sense of humor.You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.Remember that. - Tupac Shakur

A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesses in order to overcome them. It is hard for a person to understand his own weaknesses. - Chaim Potok

Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget. - Alysha Speer

I know lonely can be hard, but the longer you stay in the wrong relationship, the longer it will take for the right one to find you. Don't stay in a relationship that doesn't build you up. - Elizabeth Bourgeret

At a stage in life, you learn to talk less. That is, let your works do the talking. Hence, work hard in silence. The evidence will be clear for all to see. - Oscar Bimpong

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Conversations sometimes are so hard to follow.People are so confusing with the wrong facialexpressions for their words. - Tina J. Richardson

It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done. - Elinor Fuchs

Some people say it's easy to lie. This may be true for them, but the hard part is remembering the lie because a lie has no memory. - Virginia Vayna

I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive. - Amit Kalantri

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? - Edgar Bergen

Look those tough and hard decisions in the face and make them; keep making them until you are confident in what you see. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

It's easy to teach, give lesson to other, passing comments, but hard to learn when it comes to yourself. - Nutan Bajracharya

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God - Billy Corgan

Those who work hard will succeed,While those who slack at their work will be in need - Tristan D.M.R.

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white. - Eric Hoffer

When you have an idea, it is like carbon. It has potential. To make it into a diamond, you need to put in hard work. When you have a diamond, it may not be perfect. You need to polish it, improve it. Only then is it valuable. - Rohan Kulkarni

Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the courage to be grateful for the good in every situation and still move forward is hard (even terrifying), but heroic. - Richie Norton

Your dreams have to be like a cockroach, they have to be hard to kill and you have to be like that pesky mosquito that doesn't know when to give up. - James Jean-Pierre

A dialysis patient's life is hard. Laugh harder. - Bob Northam

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance? - Ronald Reagan

I love hard and still haven’t a clue what it feels like… - Alexandra Elle

The reward is in the middle of hard work for a reason. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Take that chance :even though this is hard, you'll get it in a peace.Leave that chance :i know it's easy, but you will always walk in regret - Hera Septyadita

My life has been one great big joke,A dance that's walked,A song that's spoke,I laugh so hard I almost choke,When I think about myself. - Maya Angelou

Debbie Downer" was one of the few sketches where I broke, and I remember watching Heratio Sanz laugh so hard that tears squirted out of his eyes. I still believe that sketch may be a cure for low-level depression if watched regularly. - Amy Poehler

It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy - Siddhartha Mukherjee

It's hard to imagine, seeing all of us breathing yet one day each of us shall be gone, leaving memories. - Auliq Ice

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget. - Anonymous

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful. - Ellen DeGeneres

That's what we're all looking for. A certain peace with the idea of dying. If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing." Which is? "Make peace with living. - Mitch Albom from "Tuesdays with Morrie"

We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us – a wall that keeps love out. - Vironika Tugaleva

It only takes one person to change your life for the better: YOU. Develop yourself to be excellent for success, by working hard and smart. Make success your chosen target. - Mark F. LaMoure

It is not enough to knock on successes' door; you have to knock hard enough. And if no one answers,either go through a window, or break down the door. - Matshona Dhliwayo

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. - Nora Ephron

There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don't confide in you anymore. The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent. - Camelia C.

Be fair. Play hard. - Dan Venezia

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes. - E. Nesbit

Progress is hard, achievements are easy, and giving up is easier still. - Kevin Focke

It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes. - Auliq Ice

It's hard not to stand in awe and enchantment with the beauty in which nature expresses herself. - Steve Maraboli

When a child studies hard, it seems that he is going to be an industrious and in service; but if a child studies hardly, then wondering why it seems that he is going to be a big industrialist on growing up. - Anuj Somany

Sometimes the hardest thing is admitting you were wrong. It’s hard to say you need to be forgiven. - Jane Casey

School is the worst choice, it teach us that we can focus on a lot of stuff at first view it's like preparing to work hard as a villager use to do or somebody else with such type hard work. From other it's selfish and from last it's full of obstacles... - Deyth Banger

Work hard and wait for the fulfillment of future events. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you. - Charles M. Blow

Work hard,and you will earn good rewards.Work smart,and you will earn great rewards.Work hard and work smart,and you will earn extraordinary rewards. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't quit because it's hard. Quit because it's not hard enough - Yoan Alexandrov

If everybody agrees with your point of view, you haven't thought hard enough. - Manoj Vaz

Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard. - A.P. Fuchs

Silence is an arguement hard to refute - Anonymous

When fate connects an invisible thread between a man and a woman who are bound to be together, no matter how hard they try to fight against their own destiny, they can’t change what’s meant to be. - Nino Varsimashvili

Imagine yourself at your best. Transform yourself with hard work to become excellent. - Mark F. LaMoure

Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results. - Franz Kafka

When you are ready to be done with the day, praise yourself with love and kindness for the hard work and accomplishments made during the day. - Debasish Mridha

Random words, heard by chance, turn to hard facts in the eyes of a man of imagination, if there's any fire burning in his heart. - Friedrich von Schiller

If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard. - Andrew Vachss

The accomplishment of your dreams will demand big sacrifice and hard work. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It's really hard to deal with a narrow-minded people that have a limited sphere of thinking, what ever you tell him/herwill be twisted into falsehood, the truth will be lost and will ruin everything. - Bradley B. Dalina

It is hard to struggle for success but harder for survival. - M.F. Moonzajer

Sportsmanship isn't about criticizing the "ONE" who didn't win on "That ONE"day... it's about appreciating and supporting their hard work amidst failures!!! - Akansh Malik

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. - Mark Twain

Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you can make a living, but if you work hard on yourself you'll make a fortune. - Jim Rohn

Money is a very dangerous thing, you have to get know how to look after it or else you will loose it with ease and remember how you would've it in hard times. - Auliq Ice

love is like a war, easy to start, difficult to end and hard to forget - Clensy

As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Colin Powell

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. - Kin Hubbard

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters. - Idries Shah

My trials may not be as hard as yours or as painful as yours but hey, I've gone through tough times as well! And yes God's love may be invisible, but I know the wonder of invisible Love... God is the Greatest! - Aireen C. Pontillo

‎"Life's book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain atschool? - Charles Hanson Towne

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward. - Henry Ford

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts as our own, but they probably are.

When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve. - Roy Bennett

We know how to work hard. We know how to go for the goal. We know how to achieve, achieve, achieve but we don’t know how to enjoy the journey. - Suzette Hinton

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird-- that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace--making the complicated simple, awesomely simple--that's creativity. - Charles Mingus

Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it. - Charlotte Eriksson

We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in the place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for and it really bums me out. - Stevie Nicks

Americans will not and should not respond to a political creed that cherishes the past solely because it offers an excuse for shutting out the hard facts and difficult tasks of the present. - Nelson Rockefeller

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. - Marcel Pagnol

Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. - Al Franken

Success demands consistent effort and hard work. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. - Gordon B. Hinckley

Come on get higher, Loosen my lips ...Faith and desire and the swing of your hipsJust pull me down hard, and drown me in love .. - Matt Nathanson

I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me. - Natsuki Takaya

Think, how hard it is to change yourself. How can it be easy to change others? - Radhe Maa

If everything came easy in business everyone would have a business and be millionaires. It takes hard work, consistent effort and courage to keeping fighting the monster of failure. - Delaine Robins

When you are the problem, it's hard to see it. - Marty Rubin

I fall so hard inside the idea of you - Dave Matthews Band

Hard work and determination-that is what will get you closer towards accomplishing your goal. - Steven Cuoco

When you step up to being excellent, use hard work and commitment as the two powerful forces they are. By being persistent, over time you will earn gleaming success. - Mark F. LaMoure

I have tried so hard to do the right. - Grover Cleveland

I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich. - Jim Carrey

Writing a book is like raising a child. They are conceived in private, and with hard labor, delivered in due time and given a name. Our own DNA is written all over them, and we pray their life will be a blessing to others. - Danny L. Deaubé

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight. - John Green

Once I finished reading a good book, it gives me a hard time coping up with reality. - Nathalie M. Llanto

Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be. - Robert M. Drake

We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn’t discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists. - Pawan Mishra

We are not subjects of an autocratic King, but are citizens of the country contributing to the advancement of our people who pay taxes out of their hard earned income. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Writers are sponges. They absorb life, then squeeze and ring it out onto a page. Sometimes, if they squeeze too hard, they dry up. Not hard enough and they remain saturated, heavy and unpredictable, as they carry around a volume of ideas too great for their capacity. - Sarah Colliver

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. - Terry Pratchett

Don't work only hard to make i in life.Always work smart. Because people who work hard only end up with that. - Uchenna Durugo

And sometimes it doesn't matter how hard you try, how persuasive you can be, how much skill you have... you can't have everything. Sometimes you just can't win.""No. Sometimes you don't win." He gets to his feet, and Red stands beside him. "But I'll be damned if that's going to stop me from trying. - daystar721

If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that? - L.A. Jones

Figuring out what you want in life is hard, having the courage to fulfill it is even harder! - Stephanie Kingsmore

If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon. - George Eliot

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

If people don't appreciate your REAL self it's hard to be with them, but you only find TRUE friends by SHOWING that self & TRUSTING. - Jay Woodman

The meal is hot, but still delicious.Life is hard, but still beautiful. - Yohann Dafeu

How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in. Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you’ll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That’s the way our strange world works. - Richie Norton

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognized them. - Ann Landers

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry. - Joan Baez

Three golden keys that unlock the door to excellence are determination, hard work and practice. - Mark F. LaMoure

Most USA citizens never realize that the systems of public protection are essentially useless until they try to use them. At that point they learn the hard way that government agencies like OSHA, FCC, FDA, police internal affairs, disability, and the like do not work for them. - Steven Magee

If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position - Radhe Maa

There are two ways to learn life's lessons, the easy way and the hard way. I seem to prefer the hard way. - Patty Houser

Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it’s very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t get fired if you don’t write, and most of the time you don’t get rewarded if you do. But don’t quit. - Andre Dubus

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. - Doug Larsen

She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel. - Faith Sullivan

Don’t let circumstances hold you down; You were born to be free. Sometimes it’s not the hard work that pays but what you’ve learned from it. Be happy! Be yourself, be free. - Ane Krstevska

Success comes to those who try hard for it - Wrushank Sorte

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams - Donovan Bailey

If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again - Munia Khan

Some think intuition is a gift, but it can be a curse as well--a voice calling to us from places that are better left unexplored...an echo of memories that will never die, no matter how hard we try to kill them. - Emily Thorne

You really love her don't you," she said.With all my heart."She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.What's your heart telling you to do?"I don't know."Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it. - Nicholas Sparks

Math is a hard subject.... - no silence from you and skipping this and going to the next quote, didn't you done this? - Deyth Banger

It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. - George Washington

If there is a religious agency in our lives, it has to appear in the manner of our times. Not from on high, but a revelation that hides itself in our culture, it will be ground-level, on the street, it'll be coming down the avenue in the traffic, hard to tell apart from anything else. - E. L. Doctorow, The City of God

Some times we needto work hard to get the JOB done - Sarvesh

Thoughts can be easily expressed by words but feeling are very hard to express with words. - Luffina Lourduraj

It's hard to be a bright light in a dim world. - Gary Starta

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. - E.B. White

Bass players share a secret fellowship, a sort of gnosis peculiar to their breed, a kind of smart that is hard for others to recognize or understand: the art of the whole sound. Bass players actually believe in musical epistemology, they are practitioners of musical metaphysics. - Randall E. Auxier

Do not blame your parents for not working hard enough to birth you with silver spoon in your mouth because tomorrow you will be a parent and your children will in turn blame you for not giving birth to them with the desired silver spoon. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are. - Criss Jami

Those who will work hard will succeed,While those shop choose to slack at their work will be in need. - Tristan riggs

The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. Follow Me, pg. 111. - David Platt

Those who dream big, and work hard, can expect great success. - Ellen J. Barrier

How hard it is for women to keep counsel! - William Shakespeare

Life sucks when you don't get the opportunity to grow despite of working hard. - Sharfaraz Ahmed

Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back. - Shannon L. Alder

Nothing is hard or simple; it is just in your mindset. - Debasish Mridha

Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long. - Mia Castile

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting. - Larry Page

A positive mindset alone in the absence of hard work will get you nowhere. - Ken Poirot

Figuring out what you want out of life is hard. Having the courage to full fill it, is even harder. - Stephanie Kingsmore

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else. - Henry Ward Beecher

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education. - Benedict Cumberbatch

If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase. - George Carlin

it ain't as hard as picking cotton - Wynton Marsalis

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you. - Shannon L. Alder

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers. - Catherine the Great

Its too hard to make a Lion Angry... He really doesn't care what others do around him... but if you do hurt His PRIDE... He wont let you live another Day - Indrani Biswas

You set it, You hit it!And meanwhile you work hard to hit real quick. - Harshvardhan Malpani

...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that. - John Gardner

Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time. - Plato

Friends are hard to find. In a lifetime you only get a few. And when you find them, you always know them by sight and heart alone, you always grow a little bit taller in your soul, and you know you have been blessed just to know them. - Ashley Rice

Successful people work hard on the right things b/c working hard on the wrong things only makes one worn out while failing. - Orrin Woodward

the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility - Jane Austen

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick. - Mark Twain

A miracle is when you take action on your written goal, and work hard to create it. Transform your dreams into reality, by writing your goals, taking action and making them happen. This is the short recipe for top success. - Mark F. LaMoure

Being on Facebook as an Author and listing your books is like being a tiny single word in a giant dictionary! If people don’t search for you they don’t find you. They don’t take notice of you. They don’t even know you exist! Thats the hard reality of Socialmedia! - Lily Amis

Dear Adam, I spent my life trying hard to prove to people that there is somebody out there who is not bad. Somebody who does not really care about money, but cares about honor, and no matter how this went, the real pleasure in life are about those who love you and willing even to die for you. - Sameh Elsayed

At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey. - Lemony Snicket

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. - Voltaire

It's hard to hold all the balls together in the arms and run, somehow, anyhow they fall. I collect and they fall again. - Himmilicious

The sensation that you experience in the body, is your spirit, but it’s so attached, that it’s hard to imagine, that the sensation can ever be separated from the physical body. In long hours of meditation, you can separate your sensation from the physical body. - Roshan Sharma

In creating the only hard thing's to begin - James Russell Lowell

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. - Abigail Adams

I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget. - George W. Bush

I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind....It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind - Anonymous

Life makes love look hard. - Taylor Swift

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. - Adrienne Rich

I can already feel myself falling hard, something I've been known to do. All because she smiled at me. - Jennifer Niven

Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there. - Billie-Jo Williams

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean. - Mae West

If all else fails, we then factor (fall) into our equation. And pray hard, someone factors (catching us) into theirs. - Noor Iskandar

They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines.""Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.""We need more special effects and dance numbers. - Bill Watterson

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell. - Marita Bonner

It's not so much what you accomplish. But what's more important is how far you've come to accomplish what you have.Success is the measure of not mere achievement, but also how hard one had to work. - Therone Shellman

It is impossible to make your own luck without the ingredient of hard work. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Humanity goes to stupidy, this part is hard to be changed it's like paradox. You can't fight with paradox....Oh, you are genius, so genius with this stupidity! - Deyth Banger

How hard is looking for a fresh breeze in a dirty air polluted with your past dusts - Wesam Bader

It's hard getting momentum riding a bike up hill... It's hard getting momentum when you're dragging around all the pain from your past. - Tony Curl

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. - Samuel McChord Crothers

That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. [BusinessWeek, May 25 1998] - Steve Jobs

I am not smart, I pay attention.I am not considerate, I listen.I am not patient, I make time. I’m not lucky, I work hard. - Mark W. Boyer

Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard. - Japanese Proverb

Pride, willfulness, and rebellion against what is written are the causes of the Bible being hard to understand. The hard part, then, is not understanding with the mind, but being willing to obey what he does not want to obey. If a person could not understand the truth, he could not reject it. - Finis Jennings Dake

The best time to seek God is when it's really hard to find the time because that's when we probably need Him the most. - Alisa Hope Wagner

I have been hurt so bad but I still love so hard, I admire my heart for that. - Alexandra Elle

Hard work is vital to success. As long as it's in the right direction! - Izey Victoria Odiase

Well, I can understand how you feel. You worked hard, studying for the spelling bee, and I suppose you feel you let everyone down, and you made a fool of yourself and everything. But did you notice something, Charlie Brown?" "What's that?""The world didn't come to an end. - Charles M. Schulz

A candle that lights another no longer has to work twice as hard to illuminate a room. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Sometimes we think the hardest part of life is letting go, but what we fail to realize is that learning to start over makes it hard for us to let go." - W.J. Dolor - Wilfred James Dolor

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose? - Don Marquis

If you are a kind person and love animals, you may be lucky enough to find the Magic Valley. There you will discover a land where snow leopards play and mountains smile. I should tell you, though, that it will be a very hard journey. But I should also tell you that it is well worth the effort. - Helen Freeman

Before giving up, try hard. - Debasish Mridha

Always think extra hard before crossing over to a bad side, if you were weak enough to cross over, you may not be strong enough to cross back! - Victoria Addino

Amazing relationships aren't about making one perfect choice in your choice of partner. They're about the infinite amount of choices you make in each conflict, each conversation, and each moment to open yourself and to stay open, even when it's hard. - Vironika Tugaleva

Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s hard to know where to put it all. Art is transportable, unregulated, glamorous, arcane, beautiful, difficult. It is easier to store than oil, more esoteric than diamonds, more durable than political influence. - Nick Paumgarten

I wanted to tell her happy was hard for me. But I think she already knew that. - Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Work hard to play harder. - Linda Rawson

If not us, then who? Who's going to stand when everyone else kneels? Who's going to argue for the law even when there's no justice to be had? Who's going to try even when the trying is too damn hard? - Sebastien de Castell

And whoever will take that motto and live by it will be likely to succeed. There's many a way to win, in this world, but none of them is worth much without good hard work back of it. - Mark Twain

It's only hard until it becomes easy. - David A. Smith

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see a lot of people doing it. - Sue Grafton

The nicest people I meet in life are those who work hard for everything they have; the meanest people I meet in life are those who have everything handed to them. - Ken Poirot

Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings if that closeness ends. - Tobias Wolff

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality. - Ralph Ellison

Believe in yourself, don't let no man define your future, work hard at your trade as if no man exist to help you and focus should be your lens against distractions. - Oscar Bimpong

If like fcuks you hard, you fcuk her more harder. If she betrays, put little bit more effort and she will be dead flat. - Santosh Kalwar

Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible! - Tom Stoppard

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. - Henry David Thoreau

If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV. - Matt Groening

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family. - Henri J.M. Nouwen

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. - Herman Melville

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that. - Toni Morrison

Doesn’t make any difference how hard the thing is or how much you want to do something else. Do the thing you first started and do it as well as you possibly can. - Annie Roe Carr

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. - Christina Rossetti

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H. L. Mencken

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. - Alan J. Perlis

It's hard to decide matters of the heart, especially when Self-love is rooted in our decisions. You'll need to balance your needs with the people you love in order to avoid hurting others. - Auliq Ice

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. - James Russell Lowell

I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me. - Sri Aurobindo

The shock of recognition is a moment of excitement that shakes the soul. It may be hard to describe, but like other forms of love, you will know it when you feel it. - Stephen Koch

...Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else’s head. You see out of the world through somebody else’s eyes. It’s very hard to hate people of a certain kind when you’ve just read a book by one of those people. - Neil Gaiman

As it was, she always did whatever occurred to her, which was, admittedly, not difficult for someone in her position, coming from a background where rick of failure was minimal; in fact, you had to work hard to fail in her world. - Hanif Kureishi

Do the things you like to be happier, stronger & more successful. Only so is hard work replaced by dedication. - Rossana Condoleo

You can't make people work harder. People have to want to work hard and make a difference. Purpose matters. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

...don't act like I didn't for you.I did. Hard. And for a long time.So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted. - Cecily von Ziegesar

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it. - Sue Grafton

Sometimes the most difficult thing to do is to believe in yourself, the reason it is so hard is because it is worth it. - Tonny K. Brown

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad. - Henry Bromel

I find it hard to respect someone just because they outrank me - Ender Wiggin

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior. - David W. Earle

People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed. - Charles Bukowski

I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts. - Randy K. Milholland

I guess you were not my friend then, that's okay. I can see my true self, I can see yours, now. I guess that you did not look hard enough at mine. Or you would never have let me go. - Tina J. Richardson

Believe that you are the best at what you do. And work hard on your abilities, to make it true. - Ellen J. Barrier

A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ... - C.J. Heck

The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything. - Vince Lombardi Jr.

If you practice hard, you can win every battle. - Manny Pacquiao

It's hard to be content with your life, when you know the world has so much more to offer. - Bushra Khanum

I'm just a young guy with big dreams who is working hard to make it on top while many people are waiting for my downfall, they don't support but hate and talk negativity. - Werley Nortreus

a girl should be a butterfly, beautiful,delicate, but hard to catch - my friend

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs. - Sunday Adelaja

185. Perhaps this is why writing all day, even when the work feels arduous, never feels to me like "a hard day's work." Often it feels more like balancing two sides of an equation - occasionally quite satisfying, but essentially a hard and passing rain. It, too, kills the time. - Maggie Nelson

It is easy to fall, but hard to rise. - Dann Moudry

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! - Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't complain if your're facing hard moments in life. Challenge yourself to face it, challenge yourself to beat it. - Jayson Engay

Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it - Bono

Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside. - Anthony Liccione

We work hard for the things we want, we compromise, we amend, we persevere, we stay believing, we show commitment. We strive! Later we will see the results - Tshepang Sharon Koji

It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them. - Dale Ludwig

i see tear drops flow from youre eyes and relise life is sometimes hard but crying is not something to be ashamed about - tv show kagal

Learning is retarded in conditions of high anxiety and low acceptance. For most tasks, people have the intellectual knowledge to perform well; they just have a hard time acting on what they know. - Tim Gallwey

You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn’t date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No. - Taylor Swift

Sometimes, you can be more than enough for someone, but they choose not to be in your life. Always remember that Satan works hard to keep people miserable by feeding their fears, so they stay in their comfort zone. The truth is some people value what is predictable, more than chemistry. - Shannon L. Alder

The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one. - C.S. Lewis