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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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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

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