Easier Quotes - Page 10

• One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.

  Tom Robbins

  Violence, Rage, Craziness

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.225, Bantam

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• But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Pain, Character

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• Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote "Dear Sofia" or "Dear Boomer" or "Dear Lily's Great-Aunt" at the top of this postcard, wouldn't that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote "Dear Lily," was that just a version of "Dear Myself"? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too

  David Levithan

  Aunt, Order, Needs

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• It's easier to crush a dream than realize one, forming a bond is infinitely more difficult than breaking one

  Ryohgo Narita

  Crush, Dream, Realizing

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• Opening my door to Dillon Ruddick, my bulding super. I handed him a cup of coffee. "Sorry about the blood." "What was it this time?" No one reported gunfire." "I hit a guy in the face with a hair dryer." "Whoa." Dillon said. "It wasn't my fault," I told him. "Maybe we should lay down some linoleum here. It would make things easier for clean up.

  Janet Evanovich

  Sorry, Coffee, Hair

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Smokin' Seventeen”, p.118, Hachette UK

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• Beautiful. You can be taught. Makes my job so much easier when you’re actually intelligent. You’d be amazed at the idiots I’ve come across.” – Death “I try to keep my stupid to a bare minimum, since my mom’s always telling me it can be fatal in large doses.” – Nick “Oh, she’s right. Believe me, I know. For that matter, it can be fatal even in small measures. Remind me sometime to tell you about the woman I claimed who was vacuuming her cat.” – Death

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Mom, Jobs

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• So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear; it's what keeps us afraid of the dark.

  Michael Scott

  Dark, Virginia, Imagination

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• love is...you get confused and you do stuff you don't mean to do-and you just-you hate yourself and sometimes you don't even want to love the person you do because it would be so much easier if you didn't.But you just-you just do.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Hate, Confused, Mean

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• It would be so much easier if there were a secret password, or handshake. Netherworld, open sesame! Yeah, that didn't work, either.

  Rachel Vincent

  Secret, Would Be, Yeah

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “My Soul to Save”, p.201, Harlequin

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• [He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Expression, Nephew, Wish

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• They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel. I’m sure you realize that there are plenty of people who are looking for exactly that kind of brain death. It makes life a lot easier. You don’t have to think about difficult things, just shut up and do what your superiors tell you to do.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, People, Brain

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• Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

  Jack Kerouac

  Fall, Jumping, Boulders

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.65, Penguin

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• It’s so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.

  Meg Cabot

  Want, Walks

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• I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Doe, Guarantees, Achieve

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• The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?

  Veronica Roth

  Goal, Ifs

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

  Ann Brashares

  Sadness

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.124, Random House

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• When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

  Joe Hill

  Thinking, Ideas, Sin

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• [...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Splendor, Deals

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• Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.

  Haruki Murakami

  Voice, Active, Inner Voice

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• Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.

  Marissa Meyer

  Beautiful, Vanity, Mirrors

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• I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life and each of us is free to shape it through the choices we make. Seeking can’t get anyone out of the tangle because everything is tangled up…it’s much easier to keep up the fight between good and evil, holy and profane, us and them. But as awareness grows, these opposites begin to calm down in their clashes, and something else emerges- a world you feel at home in.

  Deepak Chopra

  Home, Fighting, Thinking

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• Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Practice, Surfing, Dying

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.1, Random House

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• It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Loud

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Love, Hurt, Philosophy

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Aug 27, 2013

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• I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Reality, Thinking

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.104, Anchor

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