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21 " Sometimes the hardest thing is admitting you were wrong. It’s hard to say you need to be forgiven. "
― Jane Casey
22 " Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world. "
― Sergei Lukyanenko , The Last Watch (Watch #4)
23 " True friendship is the hardest thing to break... "
24 " Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world. "
― Albert Camus , The Fall
25 " Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divided, dualistic, cramped view of things. ‘We are too ego-centered,’ Suzuki tells Cage.’ The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. We seem to carry it all the time from childhood up to the time we finally pass away. "
― , Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
26 " We sit to make life meaningful. The significance of our life is not experienced in striving to create some perfect thing. We must simply start with accepting ourselves. Sitting brings us back to actually who and where we are. This can be very painful. Self-acceptance is the hardest thing to do. If we can’t accept ourselves, we are living in ignorance, this darkest night. We may still be awake, but we don’t know where we are. We cannot see. The mind has no light. Practice is this candle in our very darkest room. "
27 " Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve. "
28 " But it's not easy, realising how we fucked it all up. And that turns out to be the hardest thing to live with, not the regret or the fear, but the realisation that the edge is so close to where we live. "
― Jess Walter , The Financial Lives of the Poets
29 " It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless. "
― , Sorcerer and Apprentice (In Serein, #1)
30 " Healing is the hardest thing you'll ever do.' ~Quinn "
― C.J. Redwine , Deliverance (Defiance, #3)
31 " We cannot be judge and jury, the hardest thing is to understand the unknown and in knowing the hidden all things are revealed giving truth.God is watcher during all moments and at the end the real Judge. "
― Zarina Bibi
32 " It is hard to take the last step, but the hardest thing is to make a choice between the unwillingness to live and the inability to die. "
― Igor Eliseev , One-Two
33 " Loving yourself may seem like the hardest thing to do. But it's the greatest gift you can give yourself. If you're waiting for someone else to do it for you, you're wasting your time. "
― Rosa Livingstone , Self-Sabotage: The Art of Screwing Up: Understanding the How, Where, When, and WHY We All Do It!
34 " To me the hardest thing is hating you.Even harder than walking away still loving you. "
― Wordions
35 " Split in two,” he sang, “Loved by one, and then another. Pulled in a direction and then the other. If I could breathe you in, all of you, every day of my life, it wouldn’t be enough. My heart was captive long ago — then you stole it away, you helped me grow. Now I’m staring at my crossroads with a choice to make, wondering how in the world I even thought there was one way to take.” His hands flew over the piano, muscles tightened in his forearms as he leaned forward and continued singing. “My biggest fear, is not the ending of this life, but going through it without you by my side.” He repeated the chorus and closed his eyes, humming the haunting melody in such a way that I felt hypnotized. “Letting her go will be the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do — but I’m doing it so I can say goodbye to her — and good morning to you. Tell me it’s not too late to ask for a second.” He smirked but continued singing. “Third, fourth, tenth date.” His hands slowed. “Loving you will always be easy because when I look into your eyes I know you see the real me, so be my love, be my rain, be my clouds, be my pain.” “My biggest fear, is not the ending of this life, but going through it without you by my side.” He stopped playing. The room fell silent. "
― Rachel Van Dyken , Toxic (Ruin, #2)
36 " Tell me to stop, Aby, and I will...It will be the hardest thing I'll ever do, but if you don't want this, now would be the time to tell me. "
― C.J. Wells , Perfect Plans (Perfect Plans #1)
37 " It was never you. Leaving you was the hardest thing I've ever done and I've regretted that decision every second since the moment I walked out. I've made a lot of dumbass mistakes in my life, but letting you go is the one I'd give anything to erase.- Jason "
― Michelle McLean , Wish Upon a Star
38 " For everything you are, and everything I love about you, there's nothing you can do to save us from an impossible situation. I've accepted that. That's the hardest thing we have to do today and I've done it. "
― Taylor Adams , Eyeshot
39 " Sometimes the hardest thing within doing something challenging is deciding to commit to do it. "
40 " Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divided, dualistic, cramped view of things. “We are too ego-centered,” Suzuki tells Cage. “The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. We seem to carry it all the time from childhood up to the time we finally pass away.”Adolescent love gives us the first chance to break the shell. Sexual love makes the ego lose itself in the object it loves. “When the ego-shell is broken and the ‘other’ is taken into its own body, we can say that the ego has denied itself or that the ego has taken its first steps towards the infinite.…The religious consciousness is now fully awakened, and all the possible ways of escaping from the struggle or bringing it to an end are most earnestly sought in every direction. Books are read, lectures are attended, sermons are greedily taken in, and various religious exercises or disciplines are tried.”Suzuki says that sexual love is a vehicle of liberation? A crack in the ego shell? A path to the infinite?At this point, if I were Cage, I would buy the book and take it home. "
― Kay Larson