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“The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world.”
Lao Tzu
,
Tao Te Ching
“No work with interest is ever hard.”
Henry Ford
,
My Life and Work
“Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people's happiness.”
Aldous Huxley
,
Brave New World
“Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The...”
Lao Tzu
,
Tao Te Ching
“Tom got more cuffs and kisses that day—according to Aunt Polly's varying moods—than he had earned before in a year; and he hardly knew which expressed the most gratefulness to God and affection for himself.”
Mark Twain
,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“I don't know, sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.”
Haruki Murakami
,
Norwegian Wood
“You noticed that her eyes were what I might call hard. She has never been sheltered. She has had to take care of herself, and a young girl can't take care of herself and keep her eyes soft and gentle like—like yours, for example.”
Jack London
,
Martin Eden
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
G. K. Chesterton
,
What's Wrong with the World
“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have—to want and want—how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
Virginia Woolf
,
To the Lighthouse
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Martin Eden
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