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1 " I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven. "
― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women
2 " Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be. "
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3 " It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it. "
― Haim Shapira , Happiness and Other Small Things of Absolute Importance
4 " Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers. "
― Edward Abbey , Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
5 " But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win. "
― Melody Carlson , Finding Alice
6 " What stops most people in their tracks. It’s not the dreaming, we all have dreams. It’s not the visioning process. It’s usually the hard part of the equation. The part where we need to create action. "
― Tony Curl , Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck
7 " When I think of whisper, I think of tenderness, gentleness, beauty. And that was God's voice. The hard part with whispers, though, is we have to be listening for them. They are just loud enough that only the people listening will hear and those who are distracted won't. "
― Jefferson Bethke , It's Not What You Think: Why Christianity is About So Much More Than Going to Heaven When You Die
8 " Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle—that is, being human. "
― Hugh MacLeod , Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
9 " The hard part wasn’t breaking up. The hard part is forcing myself to fall out of love with you. "
10 " War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward. "
― Evan Meekins , The Black Banner
11 " It must be around forty, when you're " over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned. "
12 " Some people say it's easy to lie. This may be true for them, but the hard part is remembering the lie because a lie has no memory. "
― Virginia Vayna
13 " I want to say something here, a lot of times, each of us may have been guilty of labeling someone materialistic because they have a high standard or expectation from those they want to relate with or deal with. In our minds, we are pissed off. How can they elevate the standards so high, so high that we are excluded, it must be selfish of them and in fact wicked. They are saying that we are not fit to be their friends, etc, etc. We spend so much energy trying to analyse and sometimes even dare to dictate to others what standards they should keep and maintain so we can fit in, I think with respect, it is a flawed way of thinking about the situation. It is a manner of thinking about the situation that may never solve of problems, our inadequacy.The government may set standards and regulations about how we ought t conduct our affairs in the public, but it will hardly, rarely and barely concern itself with the regulation of personal and private life, except those private actions that have or bring about public consequences. As such, each one of us has the power to make Rules and Regulations for the Admission of Persons into our lives, it is not in your capacity to cry when someone chooses to set his as high as the Eiffel towerFinally, instead of dying of envy, jealousy or resulting in character assassination, what you may do is spend time climbing the ladder of life, that you may become relevant to those you wish to dine and wine with. This is the hard part and most of us will rather squirm and cry-fowl. The rules of the game was set by nature, quitting, is a choice too. "
14 " Ian pretended that not knowing what to do was the hard part when, somewhere inside, I think he knew that making a choice about something is when the real uncertainty begins. The more terrifying uncertainty is wanting something and not knowing how to get it. It is working toward something even though there is no sure thing. When we make choices, we open ourselves up to hard work and failure and heartbreak, so sometimes it feels easier not to know, not to choose, and not to do. "
― Meg Jay , The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now
15 " One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, " Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, " Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down. "
16 " Do you think I would look good in leather?”His lips lifted in a half smile, “I’m sure they make a bikini top and thong that would be perfect.”Her laugh deepened, “But the hard part will be convincing me to wear it.” Savannah weighed her hands in the air up and down like a scale, “Sexy couture in public, absolutely. Trashy, revealing ho--not so much. "
― Beth Mikell , Hex Upon Me
17 " I wonder if the real measure of " home" is the degree to which you can leave it alone. Maybe appreciating a house means knowing when to stop decorating. Maybe you've never really lived there until you've thrown its broken pieces in the garbage. Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the easy part. The hard part is what's right in front of you. The hard part is learning how to hold the title to your very existence, to own not only property, but also your life. The hard part is learning not just how to be but mastering the nearly impossible art of how to be at home. "
18 " Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it. "
― Sarah Dessen , What Happened to Goodbye
19 " Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it.And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part. "
― Seth Godin
20 " Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker's pay; leaving without approval meant losing that money and starting over somewhere else. That was a fact of factory life you couldn't know from the outside: Getting into a factory was easy. The hard part was getting out. "
― Leslie T. Chang