It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.
Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.
It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.
I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease.
To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
The future is easy because it doesn’t exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.
You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.
I saw the industrial scene and I was affected by it. I tried to paint it all the time. I tried to paint the industrial scene as best I could. It wasn’t easy.
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.
Meet the difficult while it is easy.
The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.
The brittle is easy to shatter.
The small is easy to scatter.
What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.
Stillness is easy to maintain.
No one said it would be easy But no one said it'd be this hard
The key to success is to be easy to work with.
Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small. The most difficult things in the world must be done while they are easy; the greatest things in the world must be done while they are small.
It's easy to see and notice what we like in other people. Sometimes, it's not as easy to see the attributes and beauty in ourselves. It's good to see the beauty in others. But sometimes, take a moment and get excited when you notice what's beautiful in yourself, too.
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
I'm easy to please and hard to satisfy.
What is easy to do is also easy not to do.
Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.
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