Hardening Quotes

“Toughness is not  hardening, toughness is withstanding all the forces that want you to harden, whilst still retaining your sensitivities and your humanness.”
― Drishti Bablani

“I'm here, I said, but I knew, increasingly, I wasn't here, and I felt that able-to-weep-and-be-seen version of myself that I'd been with Ruth hardening again, like warm caramel left to cool.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“Decades later, Buechner came to the following realization: “The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“The government telling the public it is hardening the electrical grid is code for free taxpayer money for privately owned electrical utility companies.”
― Steven Magee

“I find the talk of ‘Hardening’ the electrical grid to be absurd during times of utility company under-staffing and a lack of routine maintenance of the electrical grid.”
― Steven Magee