Hardened Quotes - Page 2

• It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

  Albert Camus

  Silence, Calamity, Plague

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy Ghost power, bending the hearts of hardened sinners as the wheat before the wind, breaking up the fountains of the great deep, sweeping the whole range of the emotions, as the master hand moves across the harp strings, from the tears and cries of the penitent to the holy laughter and triumphant joy of the cleansed.

  Norman Grubb

  Laughter, Moving, Heart

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• Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, Resentment, Chunks

  Melody Beattie (1990). “The Language of Letting Go”, p.20, Hazelden Publishing

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• One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

  Philip J. Hanlon

  Attitude, Teaching, Statistics

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• Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

  John Dickinson

  Race, Government, Liberty

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• She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.

  Haruki Murakami

  Expression, Scary, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 15, 2015

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• I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.

  Pete Doherty

  People, Feelings, Emotion

  "Who the Fuck is Pete Doherty?". June 6, 2005.

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• Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

  Laozi

  Animal, Covenant, Gentle

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• Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wisdom, Passion, Bridges

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• Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.

  R. C. Sproul

  Strong, Heart, Hands

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• All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

  R. C. Sproul

  Heart, Grace, Pharaohs

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• I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.

  Boris Pasternak

  Writing, Broken, Routine

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• No place is too common. No person is too hardened. No distance is too far. There's no person God cannot reach. There's no limit to his love.

  Max Lucado

  Distance, His Love, Limits

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Steel can be tempered and hardened, and so can men. In this world of struggle, which was not designed for softies, a man must be harder than what hits him. Yes, he must be diamond-hard. Then he'll not be "fed up" with his little personal troubles.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Struggle, Men, Steel

  "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life". Forbes magazine, p. 236, 1950.

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• Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.

  Dan Brown

  Reading, Men, Ivy

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• It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Elderly, Community

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.60, Random House

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• Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Giving, Lasts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Passion, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2607, Manonmani Publishers

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• Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the prolonged immersion of the pieces, previously hardened with potassium or ammonium bichromate, in a 0.50 or 1.0% solution of silver nitrate, I happened to discover some facts concerning the structure of the cerebral gray matter that I believe merit immediate communication.

  Camillo Golgi

  Believe, Communication, Gray Matter

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• Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.

  Paul Gauguin

  Fall, Thinking, Civilization

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history

  Manuel De Landa

  World, Mixtures, Construction

  Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)

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• Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Doe, Pearls, Form

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• Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Body, Shapes, Plant

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• Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life.

  Jeanne Achterberg

  Healing, Health, Learning To Trust

  Jeanne Achterberg (1991). “Woman as Healer”, p.257, Shambhala Publications

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• Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuous thread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blind amphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its end. Its forms are phantoms. The thread alone is real; the thread is life.

  Loren Eiseley

  Beach, Stars, Real

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Firmament of Time: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.39, Library of America

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