Difficult Quotes

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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. — W. Somerset Maugham
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple. — Rabindranath Tagore
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.… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may… — Peter Cameron
It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us… — Jon Katz
Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people… — Spencer W. Kimball
GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and… — Mary Oliver
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes… — Carl Jung
lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca... — Daniel Handler
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. — Rick Riordan
Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon. — Patricia Briggs
Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately. — Patricia Briggs
Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her… — Cornelia Funke
This business of friendship was a curious thing, almost as difficult to learn as the busuness of acting. Sometimes you were expected to tell the… — Gary L. Blackwood
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile,… — John Gardner
Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them… — Amin Maalouf
Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi. — Kamila Shamsie
What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten. — Louise GluÌˆck
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does… — C.S. Lewis
...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult… — Muhammad Asad

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