#hard

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awful #brevity #desperate #effort #experience

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. ↗

— Alan Paton

#books #die #end #hard #human

I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings. ↗

— Dick Van Patten

#beings #even #find #hard #human

I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit. ↗

— Carly Patterson

#best #go #hard #hit #i

Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now. ↗

— Carly Patterson

#china #hard #i #i think #now

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#energy #had #hard #hard time #learning

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. ↗

— William Penn

#christianity #hardest #learn #lesson #love

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act? ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#beauty #hard #how #just #love

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#excuses #hard #hard work #i #i believe

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life. ↗

— Rick Perry

#faith #farm #growing #growing up #hard