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Hard Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it…
- To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments,…
- Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What…
- Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the…
- What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It…
- God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.
- Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive…
- Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to…
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
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- Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. — Lance Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong
- Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
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- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius