Hardens Quotes

70 Hardens quotes by 54 unique authors

Prayer is self-discipline. The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches the sinews of the soul and hardens its muscles. To pray… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Have a heart that never hardens — Charles Dickens
To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense. — Timothy Keller
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it. — Gloria Steinem
Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and… — Ingrid Newkirk
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the… — Charles Caleb Colton
I know the way you can get / When you have not had a drink of Love: / Your face hardens, / Your sweet muscles… — Hafez
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both. — Grace Slick
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to… — Margaret Fuller
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. — George Sand
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and… — Simone Weil
The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief. — Jose Saramago
The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as… — Sue Monk Kidd
What fire does not destroy, it hardens — Oscar Wilde
A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one… — Katsura Hoshino

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