“Life is hard already. Why make it harder?”

— Sara Shepard , book Perfect

Source: Perfect

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Author 1973

George V. Higgins book The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Source: The Friends of Eddie Coyle

“When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.”

Jeanne DuPrau The People of Sparks

Source: The People of Sparks

“[L]eaving home is hard, and the social distance of wealth makes it even harder.”

Jamelle Bouie (1987) American columnist and political correspondent

About Richard Sherman's statements in defense of DeSean Jackson, who was cut from the Philadelphia Eagles amid reports of gang ties.
Down and Out, 2014

“He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.”

Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“The harder the life the finer the type and there’s no doubt about that; the easier you make life the lower goes your standards.”

Wilfred Thesiger (1910–2003) British explorer

Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swjcpS6EpV4&feature=youtu.be&t=17m43s. 2001.
Variant: I think the harder the life, the finer the type

“Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.”

Mo Yan book Big Breasts and Wide Hips

Source: Big Breasts and Wide Hips (1996)

“Steph thinks you can wear makeup and still find Narnia.
Well, so do I, but why make things harder?”

Pamela Dean (1953) author

Juniper, Gentian, & Rosemary, Tor Books, 1998, Chapter 5, p. 56.

“Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

“Life is hard already. Why make it harder?”

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