Difficult Quotes - Page 3

• I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Anger, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Happiness, People

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• Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Wisdom, Religious

  "Points of friction". Book by Agnes Repplier, "Consolations of the Conservative", 1920.

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• There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

  Winston Churchill

  Girl, Wall, Humorous

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in you life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something.

  Mark Haddon

  Stars, Nice, Taken

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• If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Fake People, Kids, Want

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• We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

  Terry Brooks

  Fake People, Trying, Tests

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• The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

  Walter J. West

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Firsts

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• I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

  Norton Juster

  Hands, Should Have, Way

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.101, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Teacher, Fun

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• Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

  Nhat Hanh

  Positive, Uplifting, Hope

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this—through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication—we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Wall, Pain, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from May 17, 2014

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• Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Education, Intelligence

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th edition, 1919.

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• We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.

  Harold Bloom

  Reading, Knowledge, Self

  Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.

  Henri Matisse

  Thinking, Joy, Suffering

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• I have read for countless people on innumerable subjects and the most difficult thing to understand within the cards is always the timing. I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility. I always thought it was just a matter of time but I was wrong.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Long, People, Waiting

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• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

  Jonathan Ive

  Kindness, Business, Comeback

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• The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Health, Science, Always Trying

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• The most important things are the hardest to say

  Stephen King

  I Love You, Valentines Day, Communication

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• -Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard? When Jason said it like that, it didn’t seem hard. In fact, it seemed to make a lot of sense, but inside, it felt hard. Inside it felt like the hardest thing in the world. To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Letting Go, Home, Simple

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• Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.

  Lenny Santos

  Moving On, Letting Go, Breakup

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• It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Disappointment

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• Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.

  Tom Flynn

  Love, Wisdom, Rose

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