Quotes About Difficulty

Scientists have grave difficulty dealing with the reality of God.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.1 It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult—once we truly understand and accept it—then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

La vida es difícil. Esta es una gran verdad, una de las más grandes.[1] Es una gran verdad porque, una vez que la comprendemos realmente, la trascendemos. Cuando nos damos cuenta de que la vida es difícil —en el momento en que lo hemos comprendido y aceptado verdaderamente—, ya no resulta difícil, porque una vez que se acepta esta verdad, la dificultad de la vida ya no importa.

But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own.

the chief reason that [A Wrinkle in Time] was rejected for over two years and by thirty-odd publishers was because it is a difficult book for many adults, the decision was made to market it as a children's book; it won a medal for children's books.

The lesson of the trickster tales is the third desirable difficulty: the unexpected freedom that comes from having nothing to lose. The trickster gets to break the rules.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult.

Solo las almas muy banales alcanzan fácilmente la expresión sincera de su personalidad. Pues una personalidad nueva solo se expresa sinceramente en una forma nueva. La frase que nos es personal ha de ser tan particularmente difícil de tensar como el arco de Ulises

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Every man, who proposes to grow eminent by learning, should carry in his mind, at once, the difficulty of excellence, and the force of industry; and remember that fame is not conferred but as the recompense of labour, and that labour, vigorously continued, has not often failed of its reward.

He now found that it would be very difficult to effect that which it was very easy to suppose effected.

From the perpetual necessity of consulting the animal faculties, in our provision for the present life, arises the difficulty of withstanding their impulses, even in cases where they ought to be of no weight; for the motions of sense are instantaneous, its objects strike unsought, we are accustomed to follow its directions, and therefore often submit to the sentence without examining the authority of the judge.

The text is your greatest enemy.

The person who puts the complaint forward ends up being the conduit; they have to hold all the information in order that it can be circulated; they have to keep things moving. We sense a difficulty here given that many of the experiences that lead to complaint can make it hard to hold yourself together, let alone an unwieldy process.

I want to knit socks for the soldiers. It's not as easy as that, she said, looking at me strangely. It's difficult to turn a good heel. There are competitions over it.

Difficult. Everything is difficult at the moment. Sleeping is difficult because I keep having horrible dreams. Waking up is difficult because I can't sleep. Looking in the mirror is difficult because I hate the person I see.

Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.

It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder -if not impossible- to lose.

And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.

Just wait a second. We can't leave it like this. But this too, wasn't true. Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.

But this, too, wasn't true. Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so dammed hard.