Difficulty Quotes
2104 quotes by 1367 authors
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In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time we spend trying…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of…
— Sigmund Freud
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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach…
— Alberto Manguel
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When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty when…
— Laozi
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The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a stream of tremendously…
— Carlos Castaneda
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It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit with…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
— Francois Rabelais
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I've always had difficulties with female characters.
— John le Carre
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A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.
— J. Edgar Hoover
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But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any…
— Galileo Galilei
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The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be…
— Sengcan
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Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations,…
— Matt Groening
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Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very…
— Lilias Trotter
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