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• It must be a hard thing, to be a father; living in fear that your daughter would meet a boy she liked, but also having to worry if she didn't.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Daughter, Father, Boys

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• Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake but you’re not supposed to question adults or your coach or your teacher because they make the rules. Maybe they know best but maybe they don’t. It all depends on who you are, where you come from.

  Michael Oher

  Teacher, Mistake, Ideas

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• Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

  Lucy Larcom

  Adversity, Sunshine, Blessing

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

  Shusaku Endo

  Beautiful, Miserable, Christ

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• The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The body is a damn hard thing to kill.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicidal, Body, Damn

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart
  Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Fathers Day, Dad, Heart

  Song: My Father's House, Album: Nebraska, 1982

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• Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

  George C. Lorimer

  Inspirational, Procrastination, Putting Things Off

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• I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

  Nell Zink

  Writing, White, Challenges

  "Subjects That Interest Most People". Interview with Amy Feltman, logger.believermag.com. July 20, 2015.

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• A great teacher makes hard things easy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Easy, Hard

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• You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own;
  The final step you must take alone.
  No wisdom is better than this when known:
  That every hard thing is done alone.

  Hermann Hesse

  Finals, Done, Steps

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• Nothing is wrong with you. You're not different. Everybody feels as bad as you do: this is just what writing a novel feels like. To write a novel is to come in contact with raw, primal feelings, hopes and longings and psychic wounds, and try to make a big public word-sculpture out of them, and that is a crazy hard thing to do.

  Lev Grossman

  Crazy, Writing, Psychics

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• There are a couple hard things. One, getting a funny idea that people can relate to; a funny idea or a funny script; there's a million pitches.

  David Spade

  Couple, Ideas, People

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• I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right. I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. And I'm not willing to stay somewhere where I am really not happy. And I am not willing to pretend I am for the kid's sake or so that I don't have to go through another public humiliation.

  Halle Berry

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.

  Beth Ditto

  Hard Work, Home, Mean

  "What Would Beth Ditto Do?" By Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2007.

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• If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you’ll be feeling what they’re feeling. If you’re separated, it’s not a hard thing to do at all.

  Eve Ensler

  Hurt, Feelings, Destroying

  "Interview with Eve Ensler: In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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• Relationships are like farting, If you push too hard things could get messy real fast.

  Kevin Hart

  Real, Messy, Hard

  FaceBook post by Kevin Hart from Jan 03, 2012

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• Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

  Stuart Cloete

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Hard

  Stuart Cloete (1947). “The Third Way”

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• Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pain, Simple, Men

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.288, Delacorte Press

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• Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

  Evan Williams

  Easy, Reaching, Valuable

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• Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're near someone, when you touch them on some level that is deeper than the uselessly structured formality of casual civilized interaction, there's a sense of satisfaction in it. Or at least, there is for me. It doesn't have to be someone particularly nice. You don't have to like them. You don't even have to want to work with them. You might even want to punch them in the nose. Sometimes just making that connection is its own experience, its own reward.

  Jim Butcher

  Nice, Loneliness, Connections

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.269, Penguin

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• At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Running, Catching On, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.118, Scholastic Inc.

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• The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

  Sue Grafton

  Life Is, Nothing Ever Changes, Hard

  Sue Grafton (1993). “"J" is for Judgment”, p.1, Macmillan

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• It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Men, Routine, Lions

  H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.

  Donald Miller

  Fashion, Believe, Dying

  FaceBook post by Donald Miller from Aug 05, 2010

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