Quotes About Difficulty

St. Augustine said, The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties. There are times when the entire arrangement of our existence is disrupted and we long then for just one ordinary day - seeing our ordinary life as greatly desirable, even wonderful, in the light of the terrible disruption that has taken place. Difficulty opens our eyes to pleasures we had taken for granted.

God makes the assignments, and he apportions the degree of difficulty in precise measurements.

The beginning is always so hard. Any beginning is always so hard.

Oh my God, baby, you are in so much trouble.

Struggle explained everything.

As someone who struggles with anxiety and cowardice, as we all do, I'm profoundly inspired by. . . . full-on commitment to wonder, to wonder as a response to anguish or difficulty. It makes everything a puzzle, right? A catastrophe is nothing but a puzzle with the volume of drama turned up very high.

Rose's own experience was that goodness, the state of being good, was only reached with difficulty and pain. It took a long time to get to it; in fact one never did get to it, or, if for a flashing instant one did, it was only for a flashing instant. Desperate perseverance was needed to struggle along its path, and all the way was dotted with doubts.

There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.

Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'.

Love is never easy. We begin by loving the things we can, according to our stature, but it is not long before we find that what we love is other than ourselves and that our love is no protection against being wounded. Do we then speak to dominate what we love, to make it bend to our will, to stop it from hurting us even though to do so is to betray love? And that is only where the difficulty begins..

We think of stopping smoking as something that is very difficult to do. What do we need when we have something difficult to do? We need our little friend. So stopping smoking appears to be a double blow. Not only do we have a difficult task to perform, which is hard enough, but the crutch on which we normally rely on such occasions is no longer available.

They know what to expect from us. They know that eventually we will "help" them yet again. The bitter truth for many of us is that we haven't been helping; we've been enabling. So instead of praying to God to stop the pain, remove the difficulty, or change the lives of our adult children, we must rise up and pray for something entirely different. We must pray for the courage to look deep in our own hearts and souls. We must pray for the strength to

You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

You can look at my books and not find particular joy on every page because, of course, what you want to write about is the difficulty of the human experience. You don't want to lie about things to make happy endings and weddings if they don't deserve to happen. But I would be lying if I didn't try to communicate some of the pleasure of being alive.

I've always had something a wee bit up with me, but I think it's some kind of learning difficulty. It's always been something.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it's quite difficult to put the lap together.

This is the difficulty with not picking up points away from home: the home games become that much more critical.

I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.

The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills.

The difficulty with American television is it's pot luck.

With a child, it was difficult to take up films, as it would have consumed a lot of time.

Football is a contact sport and sometimes is difficult to measure that.