Difficult Quotes
6176 quotes by 3909 authors
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It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be…
— Robert McCracken
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The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what;…
— Richard Bach
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Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
— Morarji Desai
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How did they manage to raise their children in righteousness? The principles become part of their lives, and when it becomes part of their life,…
— David B. Haight
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To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it…
— Clifford Geertz
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I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties,…
— Jacques Barzun
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...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every…
— Donald Knuth
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He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything…
— Stanislaw Ulam
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The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep…
— Phillis Wheatley
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Yesterday I saw a child wearing a T-shirt that said, "If you love me, don't feed me junk food." I was delighted to see this,…
— Joel Fuhrman
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The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.
— Catherine the Great
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That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the ages - pious…
— Rajneesh
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In the East all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. Because of this anti…
— Rajneesh
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But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego is the problem…
— Rajneesh
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My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.
— Lev Polugaevsky
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You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.
— Oprah Winfrey
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If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory…
— Gaston Bachelard
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We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but…
— Mother Teresa
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Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it . . . for…
— Susan Sullivan
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