Difficult Things Quotes - Page 11

• The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Difficult, Knows

  P. D. Ouspensky (2009). “Tertium Organum”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Simplicity, Achieve, Difficult

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• In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Life Death, Difficult

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• One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

  Joseph Addison

  Powerful, Mind, Important

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• If you avoid difficult things, great things will avoid you.

  George H. Brimhall

  Difficult, Great Things, Ifs

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• Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Spiritual, Thinking, Practice

  Frithjof Schuon, James S. Cutsinger (2004). “Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life”, p.179, World Wisdom, Inc

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• When you’re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, you’re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or you can face it, confront it, and work through it. But to work through it, sometimes feels like holding your own head below water when you’re already drowning. Your natural instinct when drowning is to get back up to the surface and give yourself some relief from that terrible situation…you just want to breathe again.

  Buck 65

  Giving, Water, Choices

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• It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark and difficult things.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Believe, Heart, Dark

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• Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail.

  Demi Moore

  Divorce, World, Sometimes

  "Demi Moore says she is divorcing Kutcher", www.cnn.com. November 18, 2011.

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• ....the designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a very difficult thing to do. Most people "look" at a lot of thing but never "see" anything. Looking is emotional; seeing is an intellectual process.

  Albert Hadley

  Emotional, Essence, People

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• Mercies and blessings come in different forms-sometimes as hard things. Yet the Lord said, 'Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in all things' (D&C 59:7). All things means just that: good things, difficult things-not just some things. He has commanded us to be grateful because He knows being grateful will make us happy. This is another evidence of His love.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Grateful, Mean, Blessing

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• It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Addiction, Drug, Challenges

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• In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Phones, Light

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

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• To be alone in the air at night is to be very much alone indeed. . . cut off from everything and everyone . . . nothing is 'familiar' any longer . . . . I think that unfamiliarity is the most difficult thing to face; one feels rather like Alice in Wonderland after she has nibbled the toadstool that made her grow smaller - and like Alice, one hopes that the process will stop while there is still something left!

  Pauline Gower

  Cutting, Night, Thinking

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• Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.

  Bhai Sahib Singh

  Spiritual, Done, World

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• It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Success, Winning, Chess

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• Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

  Peter Tork

  Baseball, Skills, Bats

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• The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive.

  Darius Milhaud

  Writing, Self, Secret

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• You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

  Diahann Carroll

  Distance, Holding On, Sanity

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• Pittsburgh have showed me a couple deals, but we all know the money ain't what it's supposed to be. If I quit the game right now, I can take tax-free money, and that's a difficult thing that I'm going through with myself.

  Jermichael Finley

  Couple, Games, Pittsburgh

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• Its a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

  Troian Bellisario

  Opportunity, World, Wonderful

  "Troian's Emotional Struggle". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. August 13, 2012.

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• I have realized that you can close yourself off to life if you put walls up, but it's a difficult thing ... You can't see over, people can't see in, and you also can't see out. So I've gotten quite comfortable with just being unafraid. I keep saying the same thing: it's not about being fearless but really just embracing the fears and using them.

  Kristen Stewart

  Wall, People, Fearless

  "Kristen Stewart Covers V Magazine, Says She ‘Loves People,’ & Is ‘Comfortable Being Unafraid’". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2013.

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• The most difficult thing for us seems to be to give of ourselves, to do away with selfishness. If we really love someone, nothing is too difficult for us to do for that individual. There is no real happiness in having or getting unless we are doing it for the purpose of giving it to others. Half the world seems to be following the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness-many think it consists of having and getting and being served, when really happiness is found in serving others.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Selfish, Real, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

  Kirk Douglas

  Gratitude, Grateful, Thinking

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• Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

  Greg Lake

  Dignity, Comeback, Defeat

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