Kim Harrison Quotes

You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package.

Not just whether but how we find our way truly matters.

Sometimes if you don't take the easy option, it'll pay dividends in the long run.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it? I'll always find the hardest path.

Know that the thing that is easiest to do is rarely the thing that is best to do.

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.

Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

Not so easy, Mr Lennon. Even if you try.

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

A war was coming either way. Now all I had to do was choose my opponent

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.