Toughening Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

V.C. Andrews

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Marie Forleo

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

Lao-Tzu

#8. 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

#9. My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

Kanye West

#10. I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.

Sarah Zettel

#11. If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

Gordon Parks

#12. 'Silver Linings' has proved a golden opportunity for me.

Anupam Kher

#13. No. He was not here to retrieve his wife. For his wife was not a thing to be retrieved.

Renee Ahdieh

#14. Artemis ducked. Cudgeon didn't. Guess what? Artemis was smarter.

Eoin Colfer

#15. The people are hungry for fresh manna, not some day old bread.

Renny McLean

#16. For only while telling the truth does the truth lighten us. When we stop, it turns massive. I left some of my bags on that corner of Green Street somewhere below the equator. Now I carry less and try to dance on my crutches. For only while loving do the pains of feeling lighten.

Mark Nepo

#17. I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#18. You need to love what youre doing.

Cecilia Bartoli