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“I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.”

“It was a long hard bumpy road, but this great country kept me inspired with its beauty, character, and spirit, driving me to keep marching on and devoted to sing about its people and places that make Canada the greatest country in the world.”

People World Long Country Hard Character Spirit Inspired Driving Canada Devoted Great Country Marching On Bumpy Roads

Author:Stompin' Tom Connors

“To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.”

Hard Kids America Spirit Doors Hard Work Grandkids

Author:Joe Kyrillos

“One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.”

Hard Spirit Habit Oneself Midst Cheerful Cheerfulness Hardness Hard Truths

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.”

World Has Beens Hard Philosophy Reality Spirit Dies Tradition Philosophical Imperfect Representation Superficial Plato

Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

“When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God's Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed me? then after some hard storms my spirit broke through hell's gates into the inmost birth of the Godhead, and there I was embraced with Love as a bridegroom embraces his dear bride.”

Mind Heart Hard Whole Spirit Hell Sadness Birth Mercy Blessed Embrace Dear Storm Cease Broke Gates Locked My Thoughts Heart And Mind Brides God's Love Bridegroom

Author:Jakob Bohme

“If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.”

“Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.”

Men Littles Has Beens Hard Government Spirit Dignity Perseverance Oppression Foam Insolence

Book:Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen

Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen

“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.”

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.”

Men Should May Stills Hard Dream Past Spirit Forget Pleasure Adventure Sake Great Men Exploration Honour Explorers Mt Everest

Book:High Adventure: Our Ascent of the Everest

Source: High Adventure: Our Ascent of the Everest

“It's hard not to hate. People, things, institutions. When they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed, hate is the only feeling that makes sense. That's what I need to tell you. To let you know how hard I'm trying not to cave under the weight of all the awful things I feel in my heart. When I look at my day, I realize most of it was spent cleaning up the damage of the day before. In that life I have no future. All I have is distraction and remorse.”

“The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see and deplore: Free competition has destroyed itself; economic dictatorship has supplanted the free market; unbridled ambition for power has likewise succeeded greed for gain; all economic life has become tragically hard, inexorable, and cruel.”

Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)

“It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die. ... What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal - all the pleasures of life, and then death.”

Humans Littles Hard Spirit Dies Human Beings Pleasure Deals Accepting Crazy Life And Death Life Death Cheesy Pleasures Of Life

Book:It's Always Something

Source: It's Always Something

“On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a short space of time on subjects about which one knows little, and it is indeed often amusing to see how cunningly one can steer the conversational barque, hoisting and lowering her sails, tacking this way and that to avoid reefs, and finally racing feverishly for home with the outboard engine making a loud and cheerful noise.”

Knows Way Littles Hard Whole Feelings Home Spirit Space Subjects Conversation Noise Loud Racing Engines Providing Sail Cheerful Amusing Steers Converses Reefs

Author:Virginia Graham

“Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thousand men.”

Men Hard Spirit Ten Deny Sand Peasants Samurai Resolute

Author:Yoshida Shoin

“It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.”

Hard Spirit Noise Gentle Christendom

Book:The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

“Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.”

Hard Spirit Too Much Creatures Luck Permanent Meanness

Book:The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir

“Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.”

Knows Needs Hard Shows Spirit Teach Deities Disrespect Irreverence

Author:L. Lionel Kendrick

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