1096 – “It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”

-Stephen Fry [Attributed]

487 – “I think the hardest part of losing someone isn’t having to say goodbye, but rather learning to live without them. Always trying to fill the void, the emptiness that’s left inside your heart when they go.”

–anonymous

473 – “For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.”

–Rutherford B Hayes, 19th President of the United States of America

443 – “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

–John F Kennedy, 35th President of the United States of America

367 – “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

–Iain Thomas

231 – “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”

-Reepicheep (Vocied by Simon Pegg) in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) [See Note about misattribution]

223 – “After I read a good book I have a hard time coping with reality.”

–anonymous

204 – “The ones who are hardest to love… are usually the ones who need it the most.”

–Socrates in Peaceful Warrior (Kevin Bernhardt)