Easier Quotes - Page 8

• I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.

  Natalie Portman

  School, Character, People

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• Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

  P. C. Cast

  Running, Lying, Long

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.477, Macmillan

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• The things we felt most are hardest to put into words. Hate is always easier to speak of than love. How shall I make love go through the sieve of words and come out something besides a pulp?

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Hate, Making Love, Speak

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.102, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.

  Bell Hooks

  Real, Believe, Love Is

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• When we support or vote for candidates outside the two major political parties we are immediately lectured about wasting our vote or making it easier for the less desirable of the two major candidates to claim victory. These lies are repeated every election and they must be ignored. You never waste your vote if you vote your conscience.

  Glenn Beck

  Lying, Party, Two

  Glenn Beck (2009). “Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.

  Peter Cameron

  Religious, Believe, People

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.128, Macmillan

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• It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight -

  Emily Dickinson

  Sweet, Loneliness, Fate

  Emily Dickinson, James Reeves (1959). “Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.38, Heinemann

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• No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Ideas, Speech

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.298, Penguin

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• It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

  Lora Leigh

  Forgiveness, Permission, Asks

  Lora Leigh (2012). “Lora Leigh: The Breeds Novels 7-11”, p.427, Penguin

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• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Cutting, Tasks

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there to sniff aught of interest. Wherever our Rat stopped, Pounce was there, close enough to see up the Rat's nose. I was so proud. Now there was a proper god, making himself useful! Since my thought might be deemed blasphemy, I said silent prayers to the Goddess and to Mithros. I begged forgiveness and asked them not to misunderstand. Since I wasn't blasted where I stood, I guess they forgave me, or they hadn't heard my blasphemy.

  Tamora Pierce

  Prayer, Cat, Black

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.234, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

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• Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Moon, Space Flight

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• It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Ignorance, Sometimes, Perks Of A Wallflower

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

  Jodi Picoult

  Results

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.1153, Simon and Schuster

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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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• i want to stay with you." it was easier to say in the darkness, knowing as i spoke my voice would betray me, my hopeless addiction to him.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Voice, Knowing, Addiction

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• Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Heart, Broken, Stronger

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.

  R.D. Blackmore

  Wish, Sharp Words, Unspoken

  R. D. Blackmore (2006). “Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor”, p.151, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Path, Truth Is

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• When I went to stay with I’m, he asked me for something of my fathers to make the tracking easier. I gave him the Morgenstern ring. He said he‘d let me know if he senses Valentine anywhere in the city, but so far he hasn’t.” “Maybe he just wanted your ring,” Clary said. “He sure wears lot of jewelry.

  Cassandra Clare

  Father, Valentine, Cities

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.635, Simon and Schuster

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• Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

  Seth Godin

  Peace, Jobs, Passion

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.174, Penguin

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• It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?

  Kate Brian

  Asking Permission, Asking For Forgiveness, Asks

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• Why couldn't I have a fatal disease? It'd be so much easier.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Disease

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• I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.

  Patricia Briggs

  Grateful, Fate, Giving

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.212, Penguin

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