“Oh, how hard it is to find
The one just suited to our mind!”

“And you know you're hard enough. And you find you're strong enough. Oh yeah you'll find you're hard enough. Oh yeah you'll find you're strong enough. ~ "Come Back Home"”

Pete Yorn (1974) American musician

“How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?”

Lisa See book Peony in Love

“Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

“Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist

“It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

“An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.”

René Magritte (1898–1967) Belgian surrealist artist

“Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

“Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own…”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

“If we are willing to make such efforts in order to understand foreign cultures, unknown species and distant planets, it might be worth working just as hard in order to understand our own minds. And we had better understand our minds before the algorithms make our minds up for us.”

Yuval Noah Harari book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century