Difficult Quotes

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Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our… — Walter Dean Myers
Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served… — Sandra Day O'Connor
But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part. — Audrey Niffenegger
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. — Douglas Adams
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky,… — P.G. Wodehouse
There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give… — Michael Cunningham
The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts… — Albert Schweitzer
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is… — Bell Hooks
Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep. — Desmond Tutu
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? — Hermann Hesse
Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend… — Paulo Coelho
There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult… — Jeanette Winterson
How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is… — Joseph Campbell
When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . .… — Henry Miller
But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble… — Norton Juster
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. — Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than… — Charles Darwin
People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity… — Ruskin Bond
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman. — Maya Angelou

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