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• Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Writing, World, Good Times

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• We had a great childhood and boyhood. It was a wonderful time through those years. A lot of it was through the Depression years, when things were tough, but my dad always had a job. But I had a great time. I was kind of restless, and I had a hard time staying in school all day, so me and a few pals would duck out and go out on these various adventures.

  James Arness

  Jobs, Dad, School

  "'Gunsmoke' Star Arness Marshals His Memories". Interview with Susan King, articles.latimes.com. November 01, 2001.

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• I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them. Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Uplifting, Hurt, Office

  "Faithful History: Essays on Writing Mormon History". Book edited by George D. Smith, April 1992.

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• People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.

  Lisa See

  Strong, War, Smart

  Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.35, A&C Black

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• Nothing ever got my pulse racing (in a good way) like hockey. Well, nothing except Beyonce, but that wasn't until I was twelve or so. Then, all of a sudden, it was like I opened my eyes one day and noticed that the world is full of beautiful girls, and I've had a hard time thinking about anything else ever since.

  Justin Bieber

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

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• It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Moments, Pure, Hard

  "He can see clearly now / Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins looks at success, love, creativity" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2003.

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• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Heart, Understanding

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• If I have to win one game, I’d have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.

  Mariano Rivera

  Winning, Games, Ifs

  "Mo Rivera: I'd pick Pedroia over Cano". www.espn.com. May 7, 2014.

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• If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.

  David Foster Wallace

  Reading, Writing, Voice

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• I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

  Andrew Eldritch

  People, Band, Want

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• You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

  Michael Beschloss

  Years, Presidential, Over You

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• If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.

  Horace Pippin

  Men, Paint, Being True

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• We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. but the deeper truth is that we don't entirely trust it, and therefore have a hard time fully opening to it or letting it all the way into us. This disconnects us from our own heart, exacerbating our sense of love's scarcity.

  John Welwood

  Love, Trust, Heart

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine faith, great faith is revealed only when we serve and trust God in the hard times, the times of suffering, loss, and opposition. That's the kind of faith that makes the world sit up and take notice.

  Ray Stedman

  Jobs, Book, Loss

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• When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

  Arianna Huffington

  Attitude, Mindfulness, Life Is

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• You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.

  Sonny Rollins

  America, Play, Musician

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• We have to be mentally prepared for every team we play. If we play a team who has a big name on their chests, then we are going to come out ready. But if we play a team who doesn't have a big name or a star player, we have a hard time coming out ready.

  Rajon Rondo

  Basketball, Stars, Team

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• I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Past, Inspire

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• There are no hard times for good ideas.

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Ideas, Good Ideas, Hard

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• It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Faith, Christian

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• To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there.

  Amy Van Dyken

  Girl, School, Nerd

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• Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the pain. I dont remember the running effortlessly; I remember the hard times; adversity breathes transformation.

  Scott Jurek

  Running, Pain, Adversity

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• If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

  Betty Carter

  Heart, Fighting, Sitting

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• I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!

  Angela Merkel

  Strong Women, Tears, Today

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• I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.

  John Corbett

  School, Kids, Class

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