I Quotes
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“It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor
“It is easy to lose the battle when you are lost. So, if victory is your ultimate choice, follow God. He will set you on the right course.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.”
“It is easy to love friends and sweethearts. This is selfish love. Higher love embraces enemies and all ugly, bad people. The highest love doesn't see goodness or badness at all. One should even love warmongers, bad food producers and priests.”
“It is easy to love God when you do not even have a cent in your pocket and you are totally dependent on Him”
“It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.”
Source: Framley parsonage
“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
Source: My Father's Tears: And Other Stories
“It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.”
“It is easy to love perfection. The difficulty consists in loving the human with his good and bad. We mostly know as much as we love. Only loving God but not its creatures, you can never really know, neither really love.”
“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.”
“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”
“It is easy to magnify human personality and agencies. Prayer recognizes that God is the source of life and light and energy.”
“It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference.”
“It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.”
“It is easy to make a promise to love until death when you are diagnosed with a terminal disease.”
“It is easy to make a simple machine which will run toward the light or run away from it, and if such machines also contain lights of their own, a number of them together will show complicated forms of social behavior.”
Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them.”
Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States
“It is easy to make excuses when we ought to be making opportunities.”
Source: Be Faithful (1 & 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon): It's Always Too Soon to Quit!
“It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.”
“It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading theorists are striving, with the help of experimentalists, to devise a single mathematical theory that embraces all the basic phenomena of matter and energy. The other two are in biology. Biologists-and the rest of us too-would like to know how the brain works and how a single cell, the fertilized egg cell, develops into an entire organism”
“It is easy to make plans but difficult to carry them out”
“It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.”
Source: Following the Equator:
“It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.”
“It is easy to manipulate poor people. That is why politicians and system makes sure that people remain poor and so they can be depended on them for everything in order to control them.”
“It is easy to mislead people into thinking that they can move themselves to the next stage by just ... setting their mind to it. Nothing could be further from the truth. The journey of faith is our personal journey, and movement on the journey is the place of mystery, holy ground. Moving from one stage to another reverences timing. It involves bringing our response in sync with God's grace in our lives. God does not make us move. God's grace allows us to move.”
“It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.”
“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions... A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice. Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or refute it.”
“It is easy to offend people who live double lives or secret lives. You will be saying or doing something innocent, but it will conflict with what they are doing in secret or in their other life.”
“It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a lichen? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours—arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on. Lichens don't. Like virtually all living things, they will suffer any hardship, endure any insult, for a moment's additional existence. Life, in short, just wants to be.”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.”
“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.”
Source: The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works
“It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws, multiply bureaucratic agencies, form pressure groups, start revolutions, change forms of government, tinker at political theory. The fact that these expedients have been tried unsuccessfully in every conceivable combination for 6,000 years has not noticeably impaired a credulous unintelligent willingness to keep on trying them again and again.”
“It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!”
“It is easy to rationalize that we don't have time to exercise. Not so. Ultimately, our improved health through exercise will provide us more time and energy to accomplish other tasks. We can usually do about whatever we want to-if we want to badly enough.”
“It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity.”
Source: A Leg to Stand On
“It is easy to remove a weevil from a grain, but hard to reverse the damage it does.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.”
“It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.”
Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection
“It is easy to resist a destroyer who is not of your crowd but it demands more courage to resist a destroyer who knows your weakness.”
Source: The Inspirer, Book of Quotes
“It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.”
“It is easy to rule over the good.”
“It is easy to say, but there is no way I could personally address every single problem in my nation, they are too many. Oh yea, you cannot fix all problems, but you can fix some problems, more importantly you could bring enlightenment to all others around you”
“It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.”
Source: The Works of George Eliot
“It is easy to say, “Jesus loves you.” It is much more difficult to show someone the love of Jesus.”
Source: Faith Acts: A Provocative Call to Live What You Believe
“It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.”
“It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.”
Source: Ender in Exile
“It is easy to say the word forgiveness but the challenge is to live the word forgiveness.”
Source: Walking Toward the Light: A Journey in Forgiveness and Death
“It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers