Difficult Quote by Martha Beck

I think being creative is incredibly difficult and painful.

— Lisa Hanawalt

“... life is difficult and painful, just by its very nature, not because we're doing it wrong [pp. 17-18].”

— Sylvia Boorstein

Fame doesn't matter; people approving of you doesn't matter. And if it does matter, you're in store for something very difficult and painful.

— Beth Hart

I think the challenge is to take …difficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.

— Crystal Jones

All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If we do…

— Jean Gebser

“...I've had a lot of time to think about this, and yes, we could go down your route. The difficult, painful one, because, let's…

— Harper Bliss

As long as you don't think he's just pretending not to mind for your sake, it sounds like he has truly accepted that blow…

— Mallory Ortberg

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, like any knight of the grail, and…

— D. H. Lawrence

“Anyhow, I get distracted a lot," she repeated. She felt like a dry branch, sticking out of the air. Brittle, covered in old bark.…

— Clarice Lispector

If you're never called, then you don't know any better. If you are called and don't answer the call, then that is the most…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

— Martin Luther King, Jr