Difficult Quotes

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer… — Gautama Buddha
Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative… — Pat Pattison
The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person… — Gautama Buddha
Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial. — Gautama Buddha
I have learned never to judge any of the characters that I portay. Sometimes that is difficult to do because as a human being we… — Chloe Grace Moretz
From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use… — Melissa George
It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics, — Adam Foulds
The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure â€” and so often, people are unsure â€” is that breaking up… — Adam Thirlwell
Follow your passion, weâ€™re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it that breaks your… — Umair Haque
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion. — Catullus
Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream… — Jacqueline Novogratz
Embracing your new kind of normal is the most empowering choice you will ever make. It transcends common sense. It is resistant to old patterns.… — Carol Kent
Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned. — Gautama Buddha
Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts. — Martin Bashir
What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather… — Edward Tufte
When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything. Fear can be so debilitating. Every day I'm faced with difficult decisions, but losing… — Linda Kaplan Thaler
The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it's difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine. — Abraham Lincoln
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on… — John F. Kennedy
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion — Calvin Coolidge

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