Difficulty Quotes
2104 quotes by 1367 authors
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Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or…
— Thomas Paine
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Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.…
— Charles Darwin
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Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend to reject conflicting…
— Ian Stevenson
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Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Put your whole energy into meditation. Once you are centered in your being, once you know the inner path, then wherever you are you can…
— Rajneesh
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Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals…
— Felix Frankfurter
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I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find it…
— Julia Cameron
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Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of…
— Hugh Prather
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The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
— Gene Tierney
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Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal…
— Orrin Hatch
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Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was…
— Thomas Huxley
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The purpose is to be in gratitude forever. Live with applied consciousness, prosperity will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do prayer…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
— Alain de Botton
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The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.
— William Matthews
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Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be…
— Dalai Lama
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They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than…
— Eric Hoffer
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Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.
— Nilakanta Sri Ram
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Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord…
— Johann Arndt
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