Be Soft
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
hard
Rebound from hard work
Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work.
~ David Grayson
Easy to learn
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
~ Josh Billings
It is hard to fail
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
~ Theodore Roosevelt