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Source: A Perfectly Good Family: A Novel

“The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.”

Difficult Flower Genius Atmosphere Maturity Finest

Book:The city, its sins and sorrows, sermons

Source: The city, its sins and sorrows, sermons

“When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.”

Difficult Moral Objects Fool Morality

Book:Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

Source: Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

“Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.”

Men Doe Difficult He Man Praying Morality

Book:Speech in Season

Source: Speech in Season

“It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.”

Men Desire Belief Difficult Youth Despair Spring Prepared Injustice Privilege Disappointment Optimistic Agony Outrage Hopefulness

Book:The Galantrys

Source: The Galantrys

“the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.”

Trying Art Whole Past Difficult Water Powerful Casts Fishing Attempting Fascination Faded

Author:Mary Stewart

“Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience, day by day, Even this shall pass away.”

Hard Pain Difficult Bears Passing Away Difficult Days

Book:THE SEXTON'S TALE, AND OTHER POEMS

Source: THE SEXTON'S TALE, AND OTHER POEMS

“the storm thunders at my heart; I find it difficult to believe in the existence of anything except the clouds which limit my horizon.”

Believe Heart Difficult Existence My Heart Limits Despair Clouds Storm Horizon Thunder

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“The work-life balance is a harsh reality for so many women, who are forced every day to make impossible choices. Do they take their kids to the doctor...and risk getting fired? Do they work weekends so they can afford to send their kids to better childcare...even though it means even less time with their families? Do they take another shift at work, so they can pay for piano lessons for their kids...even though it means they have to stop volunteering for the PTA? It just shouldn't be this difficult to raise healthy families.”

“I think it's terribly difficult to take sex seriously if you've got a sense of humor.”

Ifs Thinking Sex Difficult Sense Of Humor

Author:Charlotte Bingham

“it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.”

Trying Art Matter Difficult Terrible Office Hollywood Boxes Compromise Movie Box Office

Author:Greta Garbo

“I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.”

Giving Universe Difficult Pleasure One Thing Please Tired Boredom Disposition

Book:Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

“Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.”

Mind Sometimes Evil Difficult Determine Painful Communicate Friendly Disagreeable Receiver Tidings

Book:Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

“It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I thought literature should do - which was simply to push people into changing their ideas about the world, and to go further, to encourage us in the work of changing the world, to making it more just and more truly human.”

People World Should Writing Humans Ideas Literature Difficult Changing The World

Author:Dorothy Allison

“there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.”

Two Seems Difficult Creativity Creation Reception

Author:Margaret Wise Brown

“Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.”

Ifs Giving Difficult Painting Enjoyable

Author:William McGregor Paxton

“Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.”

People Way Said Different Hard Difficult Leader Hearing Different Ways Aggressive Passive Feedback Different Peoples Passive Aggressive

Author:Scott Weiss

“It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to have a long-term perspective. You must be able to carry changes which take many years. And this is why you can really only see whether it has been a good leadership after some years have passed.”

Years Long Has Beens Able Difficult Term Leadership Leader Perspective Long Term Short Term Evaluate Good Leader Good Leadership

Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.”

Kind Littles Difficult Childhood Adversity Cocky Difficult Childhood

Author:Jacqueline Cochran

“All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.”

People Children Littles Helping Grows Difficult Growing Up Down And Setting Settings Difficult Things Baggage

Author:Lucille Clifton

“The process of life is ever unfolding, guiding you, pushing you, preparing you for the next part of the process. Difficult challenges, bad days, upset feelings, moments of confusion are part of life's process. Perhaps these things are there to keep us alert, to make us stronger, or to test our resolve to keep moving forward.”

“Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.”

Ifs Difficult Poverty Grace Praying Obedience Chastity

Book:The Nun's Story, Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter, The Success, The Diamond Hitch, The Sleeping Partner

Source: The Nun's Story, Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter, The Success, The Diamond Hitch, The Sleeping Partner

“The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.”

World Difficult Doubt Confidence Overcoming Obstacles Faith In Yourself Lack Of Faith

Author:Callie Khouri

“You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.”

Facts Difficult Work Fields Who You Are Surrender Standing Out

Author:Lisa Kudrow

“The more closed the circle, the more difficult it is for 'outsiders' to break in. Their very difficulty in entering may be taken as a sign of incompetence, a sign that the insiders were right to close their ranks.”

May Difficult Break Taken Difficulty Circles Outsiders Entering Incompetence Insiders

Book:Men and Women of the Corporation

Source: Men and Women of the Corporation

“Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.”

Long Difficult Anger Knives Blades Butchers

Book:Patti's Pearls: Lessons in Living Genuinely, Joyfully, Generously

Source: Patti's Pearls: Lessons in Living Genuinely, Joyfully, Generously

“Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.”

“There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all.”

People Sometimes Difficult Differences Alive Sick Illness Oxford

Book:Crampton Hodnet

Source: Crampton Hodnet

“Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.”

World Government Order Difficult Voice Silence Vision Journey Movement Speech Censorship Interiors Outrage Outside World Difficult Journeys

Book:Writing in an Age of Silence

Source: Writing in an Age of Silence

“It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.”

Difficult Kings

Author:Marjorie Bowen

“It has always been more difficult for a man to keep than to get; for, in the one case, fortune aids, which often assists injustice; but, in the other case, sense is required. Therefore, we often see a person deficient in cleverness rise to wealth; and then, from want of sense, roll head over heels to the bottom.”

Men Want Persons Difficult Wealth Cases Fortune Bottom Injustice Aids Heels Cleverness Head Over Heels

Book:The Pentamerone, Or the Story of Stories Fun for the Little Ones Translated from the Neapolitan by John Edward Taylor

Source: The Pentamerone, Or the Story of Stories Fun for the Little Ones Translated from the Neapolitan by John Edward Taylor

“To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.”

Government Force Difficult Cities Activism Superiors Destructive Lasting Destroying Riot

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.”

People Writing Art Seems Difficult Imagine Illusion Tools Imagine That

Book:On becoming a writer

Source: On becoming a writer

“It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.”

Difficult Involved Court Focused Being Yourself

Author:Dominika Cibulkova

“Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.”

Long Difficult Term Stress Strategy Long Term Panic Difficult Days

Author:Starhawk

“Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.”

Way Should Difficult Wise Magic Dangerous Adventure Ultimate Crafts Unexpected Exhilarating Underestimated

Book:Spiral Dance: Slipcase

Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase

“New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.”

Ideas Difficult Gaps New Ideas Repetition Penetrate Inconsistency

Author:Joan Robinson

“As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake.”

“There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This is not because I haven't experienced any of them but because whenever I think about using the words I don't really know what anyone means by them. I'd find it easier to sit down and write a book about each (coming, obviously, to no conclusion) than to use them casually in speech or writing.”

Thinking Knows Writing Mean Book Use Feelings Language Difficult Havens Easier Speech Down And Lists Conclusion Love Feeling

Author:Jenny Diski

“More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived.”

Different Culture Difficult Partners Manage Venture Misunderstanding Strategic Alliances Disagreement Different Cultures Short Lived Coordinates

Author:Peter Dicken

“I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.”

Happens Difficult Things Happen Difficult Times

Author:Koki Hirota

“Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the working of the courts half a century after, find it difficult to believe that such abuses as are plainly described by the legislation of that year, should really have existed in the middle of the nineteenth century.”

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.”

World Way Years Long Important Ends Felt Difficult Struggle Creative Treats The End Of The Day Personal Life Intertwined Creative Life Professional Life And At The End Of The Day Personal And Professional Life

Author:Skylar Grey

“The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship, his obstinacy matching my patience, this unholy team of fire and water was bound to produce something. Towards the end of the year, after consulting sundry artists, including Arp, Mondrian, and Van Doesburg, we drew up the program for a new group and launched a magazine which was be called 'Cercle et Carré'.”

Years Ends Artist Difficult Water Existence Fire Groups Team Produce Program Bounds Including Painter Magazines Encounters Our Relationship Vans Consulting Matching Obstinacy

Author:Michel Seuphor

“The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.”

Difficult Clear Proven Status Quo Diagnosis

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.”

Years Difficult Walking Thousand Miles Thousand Years Coming Back Sad Love Walking Alone

Author:Faraaz Kazi

“It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.”

Believe Difficult Gentleman Libertine True Gentleman

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.”

Firsts Peace Difficult Teacher Meditation Strength

Author:Ajahn Brahm

“The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.”

People Believe Culture Strong Difficult Loneliness Solitude Association Loneliness And Solitude

Book:Lonely in America

Source: Lonely in America

“The matter of making christening robes for caterpillars, it is not a difficult one; the difficulty is to get a frisky caterpillar to keep still while one is putting on his christening robe. And then it is a problem to keep it on, after one does get it on. I do have much troubles with caterpillars crawling out of their christening robes after I do get them on.”

Doe Stills Matter Problem Difficult Trouble Difficulty Insects Robes Crawling Caterpillars Christening

Author:Opal Whiteley

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