#hard

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#even #hard #i #me #need

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 envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#dream #dreams #enjoy #enough #envy

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#best #craft #hard #i #possible

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#close #hand #hardest #loves #open

It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#hard #jack #jack nicklaus #nicklaus #play

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#hardest #just #our #precisely #pride

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#funny #i #lie #night #nixon

We're all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it's hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids' plates. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#dietary #find #hard #information #kids