Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire;… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Life is flinching in the midst of breathing, gasping at the thought of dying. It’s climbing ropeless up sheer rock faces, groping… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
All the sands of the world even when they unite together cannot create the hardness of a single rock! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
