Difficulty Quotes - Page 39

• Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.

  Hugh Prather

  Jobs, Compassion, Suffering

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• The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

  Gene Tierney

  Daughter, Mother, Feelings

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Giving, Liberty

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• If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying - that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 - establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.

  Orrin Hatch

  Gun, Should Have, Law

  "The Right to Keep and Bear Arms - Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary". Book by Dennis DeConcini and Orrin Hatch, February 1982.

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• The purpose is to be in gratitude forever. Live with applied consciousness, prosperity will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do prayer when you are in difficulty. Pray when you are not in difficulty! That is the attitude of gratitude.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Prayer, Wall

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• Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

  Alain de Botton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Age

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• The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

  William Matthews

  Gratitude, Blessing, Self

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• Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Inspiration, Feelings

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.51, Shambhala Publications

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• They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, Inspiration, Persistence

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.

  Nilakanta Sri Ram

  Spiritual, Would Be, Resistance

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• Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth.

  Johann Arndt

  Jesus, Heart, Grieving

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• One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

  Richard Gregory

  Understanding, Brain, Porridge

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• The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their axles in the slime. Even tractors can only move with great difficulty. A large portion of our heavy artillery was soon stuck fast... The strain that all this caused our already exhausted troops can perhaps be imagined.

  Gunther Blumentritt

  Horse, Military, Team

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• In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Simple

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• The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Ladders

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• Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

  Emil Nolde

  Love, Life, Wise

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• There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Teaching, Buddhism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL (Modern Philosophy Series): From World’s Most Influential & Revolutionary Philosopher, the Author of The Antichrist, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, The Gay Science and The Birth of Tragedy”, p.47, e-artnow

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• There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.

  Edwin Paxton Hood

  Success, Sports, Mistake

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• Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.

  Evangelista Torricelli

  Nature, Science, Resistance

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• One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential point to other minds. Words may have to be strained into a new sense, and scientific controversies constantly resolve themselves into differences about the meaning of words. On the other hand, a happy nomenclature has sometimes been more powerful than rigorous logic in allowing a new train of thought to be quickly and generally accepted.

  Arthur Schuster

  Powerful, Lying, Science

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• We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

  Emile Chartier

  Real, Want, Proof

  "The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time". Book by John M. Shanahan, September 1909.

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• How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

  Edward Benson

  Honesty, People, Being Honest

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• ...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Hard Work, Science, Luck

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• I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect. Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth. Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Reflection, Opportunity, Compassion

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• An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise.

  John By

  Successful, Engineering, Accomplishment

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