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Difficult Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for…
- Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must…
- 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…
- If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now…
- Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out…
- Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all living beings in…
- May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.
- Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.
- One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob…
- He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay…
- Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take…
- For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the…
- It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
- There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
- Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for…
- To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks,…
- It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to…
- it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it…
- Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live…
- Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation.
- Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the…
- For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the…
- If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still…
- All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself,…
- In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.
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- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I… — Rowan Atkinson
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. — Marcus Aurelius
- It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and… — Paul Auster
- I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much. — Paul Auster
- Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring… — Walter Bagehot