Difficult And Easy Quotes (page 3)

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• path
• world
• life

The things we see," Pistorius said softly, "are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. You can be happy that way. But once you know the other interpretation you no longer have the choice of following the crowd. Sinclair, the majority's path is an easy one, ours is difficult. Herman Hesse

• happy
• difficult
• happiness

Happiness is not easy to find. It's very difficult to find it in yourself? and impossible to find anywhere else. Nicolas Chamfort

• real
• doctor
• difficult life

How easy it is, Doctor, to be a philosopher on paper, and how difficult in real life! Anton Chekhov

• great
• life
• humanity

I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. Theodore Roosevelt

• difficult
• church
• wishes

The Church has done many difficult things, and from these achievements one would not wish to detract. But all the easy things the Church has had to do have been done. From now on it is high adventure! Neal A. Maxwell

• believe
• difficult
• clutch

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches. Stanislaw Lem

• government
• difficult
• good

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. Daniel Webster

• friends
• difficult
• thinking

I should like to have friends, I confess. I do not suppose I ever shall. But there have been moments when I have realized what friendship might be. Rare moments - but never forgotten. Friendship is a binding, as solemn as marriage. We take each other for life, through everything - forever. But it’s not enough to say we will do it. I think, myself, it is pride which makes friendship most difficult. To submit, to bow down to the other is not easy, but it must be done if one is to really... Katherine Mansfield

• children
• unique
• difficult

The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists. Artur Schnabel

• difficult
• performs
• act

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. Chuck Palahniuk

• book
• management
• difficult

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage. Frances Hodgson Burnett

• world
• greatness
• small

All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small. Lao Tzu

• evening
• second chance
• chance

Perceval spends twenty years wandering in the woods, looking for the thing he had found, that was given to him, that seemed so easy, that was not. Later, when things were difficult for me with my work and I felt that I had lost or turned away from something I couldn't even identify, it was the Perceval story that gave me hope. There might be a second chance...in fact, there were more than two chances-many more. I know, after fifty years that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering,... Jeanette Winterson

• bad
• elegance
• difficult

Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly. Robert Schumann

• happy
• thinking
• people

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. Charles de Secondat