Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
[Tabloids] could call you a child molester, I suppose, but they just go for the two things they think people are most… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Radicals are not going to disappear. They're going to go underground. They're going to be hardened. And they're not going to be… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your… — Katrina Kaif Copy Share Image
Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The years of imprisonment hardened me ... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
Drama school was the first place I learned that looks can affect your career. It was very horrible at the time. I… — Joseph Gatt Copy Share Image
We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
I'm a 'what if' person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience. I have taken blows. I have… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death… — Peter James Copy Share Image
Kids have to be tough to survive on the streets of Kathmandu, where older gang members often beat and rob them. They… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I am skilled now, at casting iron To make a hardened bed for my heavy world — Happy Rhodes Copy Share Image
O what hardness of heart mayst thou see in every corner whither thou goest, and where thou preachest, most part being as… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image