I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Life is never easy for those who dream.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.
It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
You do not have to make your children into wonderful people. You just have to remind them that they are wonderful people. If you do this consistently from the day they are born they will believe it easily.
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.
The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. Fermat's Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this.
It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
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