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Quotes About Difficulty

Who says reading should be easy? Shouldn't it challenge you as hard sometimes as love. Maybe "hard" is not the right word in this context. Ha!
~ Hilton Als
I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.
~ Stephen Sondheim
If finding true love was easy we'd all have a lot more free time.
~ John Avery
At the moment everything was being destroyed she had created that which was most difficult: she had not drawn something out of nothing (a meaningless act), but given to nothing, in its form of nothing, the form of something.
~ Maurice Blanchot
I'll tell you, Champ, that a man has enough trouble in the world without asking for it.
~ Max Brand
Don't see your struggle as an interruption to life but as preparation for life. No one said the road would be easy or painless. But God will use this mess for something good. "This trouble you're in isn't punishment; it's training, the normal experience of children . . . God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God's holy best" (Heb. 12:8, 10 MSG).
~ Max Lucado
Pits have no easy exits.
~ Max Lucado
Nothing gets easier as one gets older. Everything is harder, even buttoning one's slipper!
~ May Sarton
For me sleep was difficult that night. My bed was lumpy with anger and my pillow a rock of intemperate umbrage.
~ Maya Angelou
Dying would have been so much easier.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Not everything that is easy for you is easy for the rest of us. Why don't you go away, Dionis?
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.
~ Mercedes Lackey
It was like climbing a mountain of waist-deep molasses while giving someone a fireman's carry, who, for good measure, was also trying to force a pair of frozen socks into your mouth. Nice.
~ Bear Grylls
When someone has not known love it is difficult for him to trust that mutual satisfaction and growth can be the primary foundation in a coupling relationship.
~ bell hooks
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men," James Madison pointed out, "the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
~ Ben Carson
Much worse than yours.
~ Bentley Little
The belief in the immense value of the lady is a psychological effect of the difficulty of obtaining her, and I think it may be laid down that when a man has no difficulty in obtaining a woman, his feeling towards her does not take the form of romantic love.
~ Bertrand Russell
My Child, I knew every difficulty you would face in life. I suffered each one with you. I loved you and had a plan for your life before you were born. This plan has not changed, no matter what happened or what you have done.
~ Beth Moore
The most effective time to resolve to obey Christ is in advance of difficulty. Planning to stay faithful can greatly enhance victory.
~ Beth Moore
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
~ Petrarch
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.
~ Zebulon Pike
Gore isn't required for a good story, but adversity is.
~ Celeste Ng
People think I don't have experience in the second division, but we were promoted with Tenerife and Extremadura,and I was the coach of the reserve team with Real Madrid in the second division. I know what it means to go from this level to another level. I realise how difficult it is.
~ Rafael Benitez