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“I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.”
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“Once the dust of volcanic love has settled and the harshness of a new reality has become oppressive, disillusionment may have to be mended, wounds to be healed and emotional fallouts to be taken care of, mindfully ( "Is that all there is ?")”
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“How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?”
― The Book of the City of Ladies
― The Book of the City of Ladies
“Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.”
― Healology
― Healology
“During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...”
― A Familiar Rain
― A Familiar Rain
“The kindness that we receive from others in life, is also the kindness that we will want to give. The harshness that we receive from others in life, will also be the harshness that we will give. But true strength lies in seeing the harshness that we have received in life; and living in such a way so that that others will never feel the same from us.”
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“Horror is a shock, a time of utter blindness. Horror lacks every hint of beauty. All we can see is the piercing light of an unknown event awaiting us. Sadness, on the other hand, assumes we are in the know... The light of horror thus lost its harshness, and the world was bathed in a gentle, bluish light that actually beautified it.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.”
― The Black Banner
― The Black Banner
“We don’t need to take off our pants and stand naked in the snow to experience the harshness of life; a clever person even can feel it with a bottle of wine.”
― LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
― LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“I am impressed anew by... how much the harshness that challenges life is what causes the beauty. Birds fly because they must escape predators and search for food. Trees grow skyward because they compete fiercely with other trees for light. Living things need something to push off of. Each of us needs challenges to give us the right shape.”
― Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival
― Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival
“If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.”
― Notes from No Man's Land
― Notes from No Man's Land
“So let me get this straight, you are telling me it's a harsh world, and using this as an excuse to add more to that harshness?”
― The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
― The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
“Wearing a smile while claiming to not judge and condemn people as you equate their nature with no less than a carnal and immoral act rather than as understanding their orientation and identity as an intrinsic part of who they are doesn't lessen the harshness and cruelty of that rejection.”
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“Don't be so harsh on yourself because of your bad decisions you've made in the past and don't let them hinder your life progress. Try to forgive yourself and accept it as a learning curve for you and thank God you have managed to turn things .around.”
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“The two lovers stood, hand in hand and close enough to feel their breath, overlooking, the calmness and harshness of the sea, a tenderness to its ferocity.”
― The Light that Binds Us
― The Light that Binds Us
“I don’t like it. I would prefer no one else became tied up in this. But some things can’t be helped. War is harsh.”
“We’re not at war.”
“Yet.”
― She Who Rises
“We’re not at war.”
“Yet.”
― She Who Rises
“Like her harshness was a kind of coat she wrapped tightly round herself so nobody could see what was underneath.”
― How the Penguins Saved Veronica
― How the Penguins Saved Veronica
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