“I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.”

“...every day we fill up with anxiety just makes life much harder than it needs to be." Those are words I need tattooed to my forehead!”

“Living in denial only makes finding the truth that much harder.”

“Was it hard to watch people go? No. Breathing afterward, every day, was harder.”

“Sometimes the bigger the apartment, the harder it is to find room to put up an extra person for the night.”

“The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school.”