I Quotes
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“It's easier to make something happen when you're already in motion.”
Source: Kabbalah Made Easy: Ancient Mystical Wisdom Decoded for Modern Life
“It’s easier to paint in the angel’s feet to another’s master-work than to discover where the angels live within yourself...Simply put, art that deals with ideas is more interesting than art that deals with technique.”
Source: Art and Fear
“It's easier to pass blame, than to apologize, and change our ways.”
“It's easier to ponder the future than it is to do something about the present.”
Source: Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs
“It’s easier to remember two things than one. It’s why it’s easier to remember the words of a song than the words of a poem. For instance. The music is an armature upon which you assemble the words.”
Source: Stella Maris
“It's easier to say what I don't want to do, which is end up without any kind of job I really like. Even if I get married. I see lots of people go to work every day and don't even like it. I think women should all be something before they marry.”
Source: Send No Blessings
“It's easier to shut up than sweep up!”
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
“It’s easier to treat people properly than to repair broken relationships.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“It’s easier to walk around with love in your heart than with hate. I don’t want that burden. I let go of all that mess. You need to do that too.”
“It's easier
to watch
myself be sad
than actually
FEEL
SAD.”
Source: Yolk
“it's easily one of the things
i'm most grateful for… divinity in the form of friends,
home in the form of humans, the good souls i'm lucky
to know. the ones whose energy in your life is some
sort of magic. and i don’t know if there are
perfect words for it, but there are moments
when you're with them, and you just
think things like…
“you remind me what heaven's air felt like,
i think you're here to walk me home.”
“It's easy and natural to be thankful when your expectations are met. The real test of your faith is when things don't go your way, or when you are in pain.”
Source: How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
“It’s easy as falling off a dog”
Source: The Patternmaker and the Tide
“It's easy, during those moments, to throw in the towel. To shrug off humanity. To tell yourself that you tried to be happy, and look what happened: more pain. Worse pain. Betrayed by the world. You realize then that anger is safer than kindness, that isolation is safer than community. You shut everything out. Everyone. But some days, no matter what you do, the pain gets so bad you'd bury yourself alive just to make it stop.”
Source: Imagine Me
“It’s easy enough to change your personality, to become evil. The trouble is, it stays with you. And it damages you.”
Source: Nightshade
“It's easy enough to smile at a man if you want to capture his attention, but once you realize he's not really looking at you, that perhaps he never really saw you, smiling becomes much more difficult”
Source: A Most Scandalous Proposal
“It’s easy for a man to leave a woman he’s sexually involved with, but no man wants to leave the woman whose sensuality he’s tasted.
You see, there’s something about the latter, she has a way of making him feel like he really matters at a visceral level just by being who she is. He feels at home with her. And that’s why leaving her is a preposterous idea.”
“It's easy for a preacher to say 'Let Go'. Imagine a king who wants to let go of his power because it's giving him nothing but stress and anxiety. If he lets go of it, his enemies will kill him. He has to first let go of his own body-mind. Then right circumstances will form and his body-mind will be able let go of power safely.
You have to let go of things spiritually before you can let go of them physically.”
“It's easy for common people to say what they think about the government. No one listens to them.”
Source: The New Land
“It's easy for me to see the blind luck at play and hard for me to see the parts of me that put in the work.”
Source: Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
“It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance...after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place”
“It's easy for people to embrace you at the finish line; remember who ran the race with you.”
“It’s easy for people to say “Don’t think about it”, only you know how difficult it is to delete it from your mind when it just keeps just replaying it all of the time.”
“It’s easy for people to say you never cared from the start. That you were pretending and had some hidden agenda or motive. Claiming that’s why you changed, rather than accepting that they were the ones who messed up. You were too good to them, and they took advantage of that, played you, and hurt you.”
“It’s easy for the body to be open to desiring different people because desire wells up and demands to be satisfied. It’s easy to categorize corporeal desire as sexuality, but if it has no means of merging with spiritual desire, then a rupture will occur between spirit and flesh. For ultimately passion and sex aren’t only expressed physically but through a true union between two spirits.”
Source: Last Words from Montmartre
“It's easy for the politicians to fall asleep. They have voters to count.”
Source: The New Land
“It's easy for you people here; you live a safe, purposeless life, nothing to do, nothing to worry about.”
“It's easy loving someone in the light: in the bright light where everyone wants you to love each other, everyone expects you to stay together, and it's the right thing to do. But have you ever loved someone in the dark: in the deep dark where nobody wants you to love, everyone expects you to be a mistake, and it's supposed to be the wrong thing to do? A love like that isn't for anybody's eyes, it isn't for anybody else, and for no other reasons than love itself. It's the flower that grew in the pavement, the vines that grew inside cement walls, the lotus that rises cyan blue from the mud.”
“It’s easy never to sell out when no one wanted to buy you, dude.”
Source: Immortality Bytes: Digital Minds Don't Get Hungry
“It's easy not to abuse your power when you don't actually have any power.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“It's easy not to be disappointed when you're always wading in the shallow end of feelings.”
Source: The Way You Make Me Feel
“It's easy now - it's middle-aged lady, nobody's looking, nobody notices. I go without lipstick if I feel like it, and I always wear my comfy clothes. It's a life with fewer distractions, but should something beautiful show up, a middle-aged woman is free to stare.”
Source: A Three Dog Life
“It’s easy, of course, to buzz the beach and find the sparkle on good days—days when the sun is shining and your heart is light. When it gets really hard, though, that’s when you start to understand that it’s a discipline, and you need it in the dark so much more desperately than you need it in the light. Joy and celebration are practices for the long haul. Whenever possible, walk out of your way for a few minutes, and take a few deep breaths somewhere beautiful. Whether that's a forest clearing, or a french bakery, or a path through a prairie, or a cobblestone street. Take the long way sometimes, reveling in the discovery of beauty, noticing everything you can. What it smells like, and the slant of the light, and how the sounds remind you of recess, or Rome, or Grand Rapids.”
Source: I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
“It's easy to allow the world to collapse down to our own stories. To see ourselves as the central figure in the only story worth knowing and forget that every person we encounter is living their own, is the center of their own universe. But that's the nature of the human experience.”
Source: The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza
“It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.”
“It's easy to be afraid right now,
but doing things that scare you
makes you stronger,
makes fear less of an obstacle,
allows us to find ways
to dance in that liminal space--
that contradictory co-existing reality--
of
afraid not afraid.
We need to keep doing things that really scare us,
to remind ourselves that it is just a thing,
what we call fear--
and that as much as there are real things to fear,
that thing itself is the only thing that can paralyze us.
Love, passion, hunger, desire,
lead us forward to dance with our fear
so we can do it, yes,
and also so we learn that we can do it again and again,
and live with the failures--
learn from the failures--
when our fears are realized (another topic entirely).
Take heart.”
“It's easy to be afraid right now--
there is so much to be done.
None of us can do it all,
but we must each do what we can.
And we must take care of ourselves in the process,
our very human bodies and psyches,
our comparatively little but beloved lives.
Love gives us hope.
Hope gives us courage.”
“It's easy to be an idealist when you drive a Pajero.”
Source: Moth Smoke
“It's easy to be angry. It's difficult to control the anger.”
“It's easy to be complicated but very difficult to be simple.”
“It's easy to be envious of someone when you think you know their life, but you can't ever, can you?”
Source: Prince of Thorns & Nightmares
“It's easy to be friends with when shares the same opinions.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“It's easy to be happy when the sun is shining. It's when you can be happy on the cloudy days that you're truly happy.”
“It’s easy to be judgmental about crime when you live in a world wealthy enough to be removed from it. But the hood taught me that everyone has different notions of right and wrong, different definitions of what constitutes crime, and what level of crime they’re willing to participate in. If a crackhead comes through and he’s got a crate of Corn Flakes boxes he’s stolen out of the back of a supermarket, the poor mom isn’t thinking, I’m aiding and abetting a criminal by buying these Corn Flakes. No. She’s thinking, My family needs food and this guy has Corn Flakes”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“It’s easy to be kind to friends who return your smiles and happily lend a helping hand. But the true test of good character is finding the will and desire to be kind and charitable to those who give us absolutely no motivation to do so.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“It’s easy to be labeled as a bad or toxic person when those judging you are doing so based on their own needs rather than your actual actions. They make assumptions and project their own expectations onto you, imagining what you might do or think, instead of considering what you’ve actually done, said, or thought.”
“It’s easy to be nice to people who don’t mean that much to us. But if something matters to us, we will fight to make it work in our favour. Do we even know what is in our favour?”
Source: Together
“It’s easy to be nice when you get something in return. It’s harder when nobody knows the good you are doing except yourself.”
“It's easy to believe in someone else, the hard part is to believe in yourself”
“It's easy to believe in someone else, the hard part to believe in urself”