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• The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Lonely, Art, Begging You

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• A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Heart, Sacrifice

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

  Anthony de Mello

  Ambition, Greed, Life Is

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.78, Image

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• You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Ambition, Order

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.78, Image

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• Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.

  Andre Breton

  Children, Wife, Mistress

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• Float through life, just take it easy, not too much stress, just, float.

  Freja Beha Erichsen

  Life, Stress, Too Much

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• Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough and you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.

  John Travolta

  Life, Promise, Needs

  "Anderson Cooper 360°", edition.cnn.com. June 29, 2005.

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• No one honest has an easy life, and its aching for one that causes the most pain.

  James Kidd

  Pain, Causes, Honest

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• My father built low- and moderate-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn. I learned a lot from him. But I went in a different direction. I built Trump Tower in Manhattan, the most luxurious building in the world. It's not going to be easy for my son, but maybe it shouldn't be easy. Life is, after all, a test.

  Donald Trump

  Queens, Father, Son

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Real, Boxing, Life Is

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

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• Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.

  Dan Millman

  Life, Powerful, Simple

  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.124, New World Library

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• Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline; it imposes great responsibilities; but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Responsibility, Men

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• The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Ministry, Easy

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 59: Sermons 3335-3386”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

  Tao Lin

  Cake, People, Easy

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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.

  James M. Barrie

  Life, Men, Miracle

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• My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.

  Lauren Bacall

  Mother, Example, Tough

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• Living the 'easy' life today seems to make a 'difficult' life tomorrow.

  Randall Wright

  Discipline, Today, Tomorrow

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• Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

  Phillips Brooks

  Prayer, Tasks, Praying

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Easy, Knows

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• You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and there will always be misfortunes we can't control, lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life and I think that we have one here.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Good Life, Hard Work, Son

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.625, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.

  Marisha Pessl

  People, Realizing, Life Is

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• When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

  Nick Clegg

  Taken, Leader, Risk

  "Nick Clegg takes thorny path out of the Rose Garden". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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• How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

  Philip Roth

  Life Is, Easy, Hard

  Philip Roth (2006). “Novels, 1973-1977”

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• I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Artist, Thinking, San Francisco

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