Quotes About Difficulty

They didn't understand why a brave, independent woman had been so brutally treated. Many of them began to wonder why they themselves often feigned opinions rather than speak their minds, no matter how clever they were, for fear they'd be thought of as difficult.

It would be better to think that time had soured and thinned and made commonplace a brew that used to sparkle, that difficulties had altered us both, and not for the better.

People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition. —Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Nothing was easy with people, but she could always count on herself to make things more difficult than they had to be.

But that was civilization, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy things difficult.

It wasn't easy. But if changing the world was easy, everyone would be at it.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life

It's a bigger pain in the ass than rectal cancer.

Only grown-ups have difficulty with childproof bottles.

DAY THREE I DECLARE I have the grace I need for today. I am full of power, strength, and determination. Nothing I face will be too much for me. I will overcome every obstacle, outlast every challenge, and come through every difficulty better off than I was before. This is my declaration.

You can't pray away every difficulty; you can't pray away everything you don't like. If the situation is not changing, then God is using the situation to change you.

Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Avevo il cuore gonfio... Ci separammo senza esserci capiti. Del resto è difficile capirsi a questo mondo.

Dear me! how long is art! And short is our life! I often know amid the scholar's strife A sinking feeling in my mind and heart. How difficult the means are to be found By which the primal sources may be breached; And long before the halfway point is reached, They bury a poor devil in the ground.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Trouble is part of your life

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

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

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

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

Finding relief in your problem is fine, but it will not cure the problem.