Quotes About Toughening Up

#1. I needed it to have experiences I could write about. I thought I was someone who had nothing to say.

Karl Hyde

#2. You're unbelievable," he said in a low voice, and it wasn't a compliment. "It amazes me that there was ever a time I thought you needed toughening up."
"Would you prefer someone more ... helpless?"
Even Lucy had to admit that she had pushed him too far.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. I could see her toughening up, working hard to put all those emotions away because she thought that's what it meant to
be strong. I wanted to tell her that strength wasn't about hiding your feelings, that it was okay for her to feel this way after what she'd been through.

Richelle Mead

#4. When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

Laura Dern

#5. It amazes me, every single time, to see so much certainty backed by so much ignorance and neglect on what is being believed and shared. The mass wisdom of the fools can only be compared to the egotistical need of schizophrenics with many imaginary friends.

Robin Sacredfire

#6. You know ... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world.

David Selby

#7. To want your child to remain innocent whilst toughening up enough to survive This Life is entirely contradictory, but, as far as I can tell, an almost-universal parental desire. It

Nick Alexander

#8. I can't believe you came all this way, No one ever did anything like that for me before.' His eyes bored into her. 'No one ever loved you the way i love you, Susie.

Elizabeth Noble

#9. It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

Vera Brittain

#10. An attempt is made to get him to admit his guilt. He feels innocent. To tell the truth, that is all he feels - his irreparable innocence. This is what allows him everything.

Albert Camus

#11. Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

Bruce Springsteen

#12. Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us.

V.C. Andrews

#13. I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.

Aisha Tyler

#14. You could love someone so strongly, for so long, and still forget - until the memories returned.

Jason Heller

#15. The iPad's all about proprietary apps that are supposed to be amazing on the bigger screen.

Jen Lancaster

#16. I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.

Terry Crews

#17. That's like a fairy-tale princess in a patrol car, huh? But hey, even, Disney princesses are toughening up these days. We're all capable of many things, right?

Heather Graham

#18. Sensitivity is a sign of strength. It's not about toughening up, it's about smartening up.

Marie Forleo

#19. The master leads
by emptying people's minds
and filling their cores,
by weakening their ambition
and toughening their resolve.

Lao-Tzu

#20. Surround yourself with people who support you. Find champions.

Sarah Gavron

#21. I'm on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.

Katy Perry

#22. He put up with her whining until she was almost sick of herself, and then he called her on her bullshit.

Brigid Kemmerer