I Quotes
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“It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.”
“It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.”
“It is easy to be wise after the event.”
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.”
“It is easy to become disillusioned with the circumstances of our lives compared to others'. But in the presence of God, He gives us a deeper peace and joy that transcends it all.”
“It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.”
Source: The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness
“It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
“It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.”
“It is easy to believe something which is not experienced than to believe something being witnessed and experienced. For it is easy for us to believe anything and everything which is unheard, unseen & unexperienced.”
“It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.”
“It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.”
Source: Zen Ties
“It is easy to bet on people you already know.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“It is easy to blame someone when you are wrong. But because you avoid accountability and responsibility. You will never be right. You will forever do wrong until something wrong happens to you.”
“It is easy to break a resolution. All you need do is do nothing about it. Words alone don't make a winner. The same way barking alone does not make a winner guard dog. Promises only last but a few days, unless they are backed up by concerted action steps. Empty promises are to a winner what a designer label is to a bad dress. Words and promises can take us far but not far enough. We have got to sit down and proactively plan for what we want out of life. While it may be right sometimes to wait on God to take us to the next level, it might as well be that God is waiting on us to make the necessary changes in our habits for Him to change our situation. Think about it; isn't success about developing and repeating progressive habits or practices over and over again?”
“It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run”
“It is easy to care.”
Source: Voor een betere wereld
“It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world. To reach out is to risk. There is little grace in a life that never extends out beyond the boundaries of self”
“It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.”
“It is easy to conquer the world from the back of a horse.”
“It is easy to continue on a mistake, but it is difficult when errors are corrected.”
“It is easy to control poor people and it is difficult to control rich people or people who can sustain themselves. Most government and entities they are trying to make people poorer , so it will be easy for them to bully and control those people. They want people to be dependent on them and to fear them. That is why almost every system .They put in place. It is not to enrich people, but it is taking more money away from people. Government will never give you financial freedom.”
“It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.”
Source: The Battle Ground
“It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.”
“It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and make one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers of any king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit more wisdom if we prayed for them more, and criticized less.”
Source: The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times
“It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.”
“It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.”
Source: Musashi
“It is easy to curse someone, even a frail person can do that, but to bless someone it needs a strong heart.To love someone, to wish the best for them one must be selfless. People nowadays wish good for others, but their words know no soul, their wishes are dry, halfhearted and for name sake. As to watch someone excel, to watch someone excel due to the blessings you put upon them with a good heart and positive attitude is rate nowadays.
Nowadays people don't find happiness in the happiness of others but in rubbing them off. People feel bad when someone suffer but they feel the worse when someone prosper beyond them.”
“It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.”
“It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.”
“It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?”
“It is easy to despise what you cannot get”
Source: Aesop's fables
“It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.”
“It is easy to discuss the faults in others, and hard to disseminate our own shortcomings.”
“It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple”
Source: The Favorite Game
“It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.”
Source: On Obligations
“It is easy to do good, but it takes a lifetime to become human!”
“It is easy to do things for our own families and loved ones, but to give of our substance for the stranger who is in need is the real test of our charity and love for our fellowmen.”
“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”
“It is easy to enter every moment of a day so burdened down as we try to carry all of our hopes and fears for that day, that we miss the good in every moment. Every moment is worth investing a full moment in.
How we approach every moment matters. Shakespeare said in Antony and Cleopatra, “Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me.” Our innermost longing is not merely to survive, but to thrive, and we share that longing with everyone else.
Connection comes most intimately from looking for that innermost longing in others and ourselves. Love says, as Jordan Peterson wrote, “I want the best, for what wants the best in you.” We ought to love ourselves and want the best for what wants the best in us. There is a longing inside to love without reserve or limits and allow ourselves to be loved with ultimate vulnerability.
We are more than what we can hide behind a mask, and there is no reason we should try to hide it. We are not the chemical mess we feel like at times, we are amazing—we defy the law of the universe that says all things trend towards chaos and emptiness.
Walt Whitman said, “I am not contained between my hat and my boots.” We are not contained between our fears and our past experiences either.
We are born with awareness, imagination and will-power, and combined with any other awareness, imagination and will-power both will be increased; that is the value of connecting. What we are born with is all we have or need to give. You were born worthy of connection, don’t ever second guess it!
Yes, it may be dangerous to open up and let people into our life, but it is fatal to attempt to keep people out. Choose love, choose to see the goodness in life unbiasedly wherever it may be, and choose to make life better for yourself and everyone, whether or not anyone else wants to help.
It is very normal and understandable to want to feel heard, seen and appreciated; at some point however, we have to make the decision to say what most merits hearing, do what is most worth seeing, and give what is most worth appreciating, whether or not anyone sees, hears or appreciates it. There is a saying that “integrity is how you act when you think no one is looking.” I say that character is what we do despite all that would sway us otherwise, whether that be potential for fame or fear of insignificance.
"No positive effort is so small that good things won’t come from it, so do it!”
Source: Conflict and Connection: Anatomy of Mind and Emotion
“It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.”
Source: Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End
“It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience's role in it will be.”
“It is easy to fall, but hard to rise.”
“It is easy to fall into the trap of feeling that it is only through being miserable that you can be deep and meaningful.”
Source: I'm a Joke and So Are You: Reflections on Humour and Humanity
“It is easy to fall prey to doubt when you focus on what is happening around you, but if you want to do what is right, look at what God has done in the past and you will be inspired. Have Faith and things will be all right.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“It is easy to feel at peace, when you forgive.”
“It is easy to fight power, when you have none, when you feel like the victim. The real battle begins when you start to have a taste of power. It takes an impossible character to stand by their principles till their last breath, rejecting the pressure of oppression, as well as the convenience of power.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.”
“It is easy to find from the statistics pertaining to crime rate in a country that crimes against women are lowest in Islamic countries where women are dressed modestly and covered in burka (veil) in public places. Appropriate dressing, particularly in public places and before strangers can to some extent prevent crimes against women.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“It is easy to find peace if you are kind, loving, and forgiving.”
“It is easy to find someone willing to make a commitment. The challenge is to find someone dedicated to keeping it.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year