“As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.” ChildrenMadeStillsDifferentSometimesTodayAbleYoungUsedChoicesWishDifficultDifferencesConsciousHarderEmbraceUsed To BeMiserableTeenagerBeing YourselfStanding OutBeing DifferentSignaturesYoung ChildrenHumiliatingTrademarks Author:Bethenny Frankel
“I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however conscious of one's limitations one may be - there is always at the back of one's mind an irrational hope that this next book will be different: it will be the rounded achievement, the complete fulfilment. It never has been: yet I am still writing.” WritingMindMayHas BeensStillsBookDifferentNextDifficultAchievementConsciousLimitationIrrationalRefrainFulfilment Author:Iris Origo
“Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms, reducing its particularizing structure to pure sublime feeling (immediacy); but spirit is more successfully infinite than soul, even though also more difficult and abstruse, because it digests the functions of consciousness into itself and thus preserves and deploys the senses and intelligence of conscious ego to higher ends.” SoulEndsFeelingsMightSpiritDifficultConsciousnessHigherPureEgoConsciousFunctionInfiniteStructureSensesPreservesSublimeReducingAbolishImmediacy Author:Kenny Smith
“Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.” ThinkingSelfMovingProcessParentDifficultBlackTermWhiteTroubleEventsBrokenPerspectiveSafeJudgmentExpectationsConsciousPerfectionAbsolutesDivorceCriticalBlack And WhiteShockedSelf ConsciousCovenantImmatureUnforgiving Book:Reviving Ophelia Source: Reviving Ophelia
“I'm conscious of the fact that a lot of Ekoplekz material got released in quick succession. It was difficult for people to keep up. The thing is, once you hand over the material to the label you have no control over when something comes out - at one point I had whole LPs that were overlapping.” PeopleWholeFactsHandsDifficultMaterialsConsciousLabelsSuccessionOverlapping Author:Ekoplekz
“It's difficult to change, because I have to admit that I have been previously living in a less compassionate and loving way. Sometimes we just want to be right instead of fully conscious.” WayWantHas BeensSometimesDifficultConsciousCompassionate Author:Richard Brancatisano
“In L.A., it's very easy to be healthy, because everybody there is so health conscious that no matter where you go, everybody is exercising or eating very healthy, and they have a lot of farmers markets. The problem is when you go on location or I go home to Wisconsin. That's where it gets difficult.” MatterProblemHomeEasyDifficultGoes OnExerciseHealthyEatingConsciousFarmersLocationWisconsinFarmers Markets Author:Laura Ramsey
“For me, choosing happiness has to be something that's conscious, a choice, something I act on. And I think this is something really difficult in a society where there's this falsehood that there's sunshine everywhere and all you have to do is hook yourself up to it. We're Combodians such an optimistic culture, but sometimes we have to work a lot harder to find it.” ThinkingSometimesChoicesCultureDifficultConsciousOptimisticSunshineFalsehoodHook Author:Loung Ung
“To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.” IndividualDifficultRealizingConsciousnessNeededReflectionConsciousDiscoveryProfoundIndividualityIndividuation Book:The Collected Works Source: The Collected Works
“I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost a number of friends in the last few years. I don't mean that I've fallen out with them, in any dramatic way. We've just decided not to stay in touch. And that's what it's been: a decision, a conscious decision, because it's not difficult to stay in touch with people nowadays, there are so many different ways of doing it. But as you get older, I think that some friendships start to feel increasingly redundant. You just find yourself asking, "What's the point?" And then you stop.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsYearsMeanDifferentSeemsLastsLostDifficultDecisionNumbersConsciousMy FriendsDecidedAskingFallenDifferent WaysDramaticFinding YourselfRedundant Book:The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim Source: The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
“They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.” FirstsStillsIdeasDifficultDecisionStudentsCollegeHigherConsciousHigher EducationDifficult Decisions Author:Michael N. Castle
“We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.” TryingSeemsCulturePassionDifficultJusticeEmotionalDiversityConsciousPrejudiceSocial JusticeRationalMotiveBias Author:T. S. Eliot
“Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.” ProcessDifficultHealingAwarenessSourceConsciousNegativeAwakeningConscious Awareness Author:Marianne Williamson