Life Becomes Harder Quotes

#1. As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

Etty Hillesum

#2. Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitzer

#3. If marriage is centrally an emotional union, rather than one inherently ordered to family life, it becomes much harder to show why the state should concern itself with marriage any more than with friendship. Why involve the state in what amounts to the legal regulation of tenderness?

Sherif Girgis

#4. what happens on the lower level is responsible for what happens on the higher level, it is nonetheless irrelevant to the higher level. The higher level can blithely ignore the processes on the lower level.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#5. No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.

James Baldwin

#6. Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Sigmund Freud

#7. As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.

Douglas Coupland

#8. You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces.

Joe Abercrombie

#9. I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!

Alicia Keys

#10. Perhaps we are all shells; but some of us have found the pearls inside, and this makes all the difference!

C. JoyBell C.

#11. It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

Derrick Bell

#12. Well, Joe Biden has done it again. He showed up at the White House Passover Seder with a bunch of ham sandwiches.

Jay Leno

#13. For to be overmindful of your debt is to doubt his generosity who has the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

Kahlil Gibran

#14. Close friendships with girls come early in life. After thirty it becomes harder to make new friends - there are fewer hopes, dreams or anticipations to share.

Jacqueline Susann

#15. Well, you could always have him change your tire." He gestured to a large and scary-looking man who seemed to be watching us. This guy looked like Herman Munster in the flesh.

Penelope Ward

#16. But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.

Donald Cargill

#17. I kind of started 'Game of Thrones' as a really young actor and not a lot on my CV.

Richard Madden

#18. Monastery you can't retire it's forever, there isn't music, films, parties and other crazy stuff. It's about spiritual life... It becomes harder and harder!

Deyth Banger

#19. Her face looked like it would shatter any second.

Ilona Andrews

#20. I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.

Emilia Fox