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“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.”

Writing Mind May Has Beens Stills Book Different Next Difficult Achievement Conscious Limitation Irrational Refrain Fulfilment

Author:Iris Origo

“In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.”

Way Jobs Easy Difficult Work Fields Performing Endeavor

Author:Lynda Obst

“There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it, or whether it is so calm, so unassuming, so little ostentatious in itself, that words give an imperfect idea of it, I know not. It is easier to enjoy it, than define it. ... and is oftener found at home, when home has not been embittered by dissensions, suspicions and guilt, than any where else upon earth. Yes, it is in home and in those who watch there for us.”

Source: The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon (1816)

“There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.”

Values Difficult Emotion Visible

Book:Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea

Source: Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea

“Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.”

Thinking Culture Courses Difficult Disease Oneself Discrimination

Author:Chrystos

“all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.”

Children Ideas Country Shows Speak Language Difficult France Persist Never Quit Showing Off Speaks French

Book:Every Frenchman Has One

Source: Every Frenchman Has One

“Nothing is difficult for the humble.”

Difficult Humility Humble

Author:Mary Faustina Kowalska

“Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life...When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.”

“God will forgive you if you forgive others. Forgiving those who cause offence or injury is often exceedingly difficult. And yet, forgiveness is one of the most beautiful and important teachings of Jesus Christ. It is central to the gospel because, without it, you can't go to heaven.”

Ifs Important Beautiful Jesus Heaven Causes Difficult Christ Teaching Jesus Christ Forgiving Gods Will Injury Offence

Book:A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living

“This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”

World Difficult Taxes Philosopher Income Hardest Mathematician Hardest Thing Income Tax Tax Day

Author:Albert Einstein

“Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.”

Trying Looks Important Difficult Impossible Awareness

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“I genuinely believed no one would want to marry me. I am difficult to live with. I'm selfish, quite weird and I need time on my own to think - and then I work all night long. That is difficult for someone to deal with. And it would drive me mad - I could never be my own girlfriend!”

Thinking Want Needs Long Night Difficult My Own Deals Mad Selfish Girlfriend All Night Marry Me Time Of Need I Need Time

Author:Simon Cowell

“Lifes That Way was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasnt written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.”

Way Writing Book Difficult Space Written Events Happenings Journal Hindsight Aftermath

Author:Jim Beaver

“Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.”

Thinking Might Difficult Lines Poet Novelists Beckett

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“Question of "Where We Begin" turns to be not only a formal question but also a question central to the attempt to make sense of things about which it is very difficult to make any sense - illness, death, despair, suicides, cruelty, the various troubles love can provoke, our inability to really know one another when we our inner selves are walled off by our bodies.”

Knows Self Body Turns Difficult Trouble Despair Suicide Illness Various Cruelty Make Sense Provoking Formal Inability Inner Self

Author:Kyle Minor

“It's difficult to make a movie about a complicated, non-traditional female character. We see a lot more movies with male characters who are at that point in their lives, but not that many about females.”

Character Difficult Female Males Complicated Traditional Female Characters

Author:Megan Griffiths

“In terms of homosexuality, not everyone is prepared for a daily struggle against nature. In some ways, people who challenge and subvert their biologically-determined body are struggling against nature. It's a mysterious combination of nature and nurture that determines a person's gender, and for whatever reason some people are driven to challenge their biological "destiny". It's a difficult struggle, and I believe it takes a lot of courage.”

“Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.”

Made Difficult Constitution Made It Founders

Author:Barack Obama

“I tried my hand at writing, I tried to write out a little script - and it's not too bad. Mostly, though, it let me understand how incredibly difficult that job is. I can't even imagine doing it on a weekly basis for a series in any way. That's tough. I think I'll try to leave that to smarter people than me.”

People Thinking Way Writing Trying Littles I Can Hands Jobs Difficult Imagine Tough Let Me Bases Series Scripts Smarter

Author:Nathan Fillion

“There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.”

Way Should Self Difficult Practice Meditation Criticism Wrong Way Self Criticism

Author:Moby

“Our [Republicans'] object is to avoid having stupid candidates who can't win general elections, who are undisciplined, can't raise money, aren't putting together the support necessary to win a general election campaign, because this money is too difficult to raise to be spending it on behalf of candidates who have little chance of winning in a general election.”

Littles Together Winning Difficult Chance Support Stupid Objects Republican Raises Election Spending Campaigns Candidates Behalf Can't Win Undisciplined General Elections

Author:Karl Rove

“I can't walk down the streets. It's very difficult. I can't go to the mall. I have to go to hotels just to have a meal. Everybody wants to say hi and say thank you and congratulate me, so it's very difficult.”

Want I Can Difficult Walks Streets Meals Hotel Malls Saying Thank You

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real.”

Real Suffering Difficult Violence Dangerous Iraq Bloodshed

Author:George W. Bush

“I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security through back in the time when it was seen as - well, it wasn't what it is today. It was sort of a last-ditch, if you really need it, you got it, but, today, it's much more a part of your retirement program.”

Ifs Needs Wells Looks Today Able Lasts Social Difficult Security Program Retirement Social Security Difficult Times Great Depression

Author:Chris Matthews

“The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression. So, in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve.”

“We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more difficult than ever. When in fact we need communication more urgently than ever, because the enemies that threaten us are universal: drugs, illiteracy and crime. We have to fight against them together.”

World Way Needs Different Facts Able Together Fighting Difficult Enemy Crime Communication Drug Universal Communicate Different Ways Illiteracy

Author:Tom Cruise

“I believe in process. I believe that having a really difficult process is more valuable than a good outcome.”

Believe I Believe Process Difficult I Believe In Valuable Outcomes

Author:Tina Fey

“Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.”

Difficult Roles Active Afghanistan Rebuilding Afghan

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.”

Mind Sometimes Inspiration Difficult Brain Empty Incredibles Caring

Author:Yoko Ono

“It's difficult to explain love. You want to explain water? You need a book for it. There are many different ways to explain what water is. Love is big, it's very big. I know that I have tons of it. But maybe we don't want to open up so much, and we think, maybe we don't have so much, but yes, you know that you have tons of love. We all do. Through that love we can connect, we can heal each other, we can make people, all of us, happy, joyful, and make a better world.”

People Thinking Knows World Way Want Needs Book Different Bigs Difficult Water Love Is Love You Heal Different Ways Joyful

Author:Yoko Ono

“There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don’t solve any problem because they’re so one of a kind.”

World Kind Problem Law Difficult Powerful Cases Definitions Solve Phrases Fascinating Exception One Of A Kind Bad Laws

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.”

Believe Doe Important School I Believe Difficult Attention Teacher My Sister Public School School Teachers

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can grasp and embrace, that would cause him to move away from the centuries-old idea of the individual and individualism, and move toward a different concept of what it means to be human in a collective society. Unless he has that reason, unless he has a fundamental reason to do that, it's going to be very difficult to cause him to make that shift, in my view.”

“You want attention, you want to grab some of that airspace that exists out there in a world that's very difficult to get it because it's so competitive and to get it for more than a few seconds. Any attention is good and that can be what we would normally consider as bad attention so I wanted to make you aware of that dynamic.”

World Want Wanted Difficult Attention Seconds

Author:Robert Greene

“Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever.”

People Way Needs States Running Able Culture Difficult Abuse Resistance Inevitable Communist Capitalist Abuse Of Power

Author:Arundhati Roy

“It is easy to speak words of love, or to meditate lovingly upon those people with whom you are in harmony. But it is those people who seem most difficult, who may even seem hostile, that need your radiation of love most. Their very hostility is but their soul's cry for loving recognition. When you generate sufficient love to them, the discord will fade away.”

People Needs May Soul Seems Speak Easy Difficult Cry Harmony Recognition Sufficient Radiation Fades Hostile Hostility Fade Away Discord

Author:Catherine Ponder

“Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.”

Men Difficult Pregnancy

Book:A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation

Source: A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation

“The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.”

“You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already.”

Ifs Knows Ideas Difficult Knowledge No Idea Encyclopedia

Book:Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood

Source: Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood

“The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.”

Feels Reason Seems Would Be Difficult Religious Devil Busy Saint Reason Why

Book:Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family

Source: Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family

“it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start with a highly articulate Siamese and progress in time to the more sensitive and difficult business of talking to scared strays. Other people, naturally gifted, can talk to any cat right away.”

People Humans May Winning Difficult Talking Progress Cat Scared Sensitive Prize Gifted Alleys Converses Learners Prize Winning

Author:Patricia Moyes

“It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”

“I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.”

Feels Writing Wells Lasts Three Felt Difficult Numbers Successful Five Minutes Lists Five Minutes Difficult Days

Author:Jacqueline Briskin

“I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.”

Trying Ideas Seems Difficult Realizing Talent Pennies Bad Ideas

Author:Kathleen Winsor

“The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.”

“Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.”

Needs Jobs Wish Difficult Decision Politician Luck Good Luck Schwarzenegger Unpopular Decisions

Author:Clint Eastwood

“The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.”

Hands Difficult Imagination Magic Stage Police Trade Profession Nervous Crafts Delicate Magician Hostility Ingenious Guarded Explosives Specialization Narcotics

Author:William Bolitho

“My husband and I speak an ancient language called grammatical English, and the kids speak a strange dialect which is difficult to decode because it is based on only four phrases: 'Huh,' 'I dunno,' 'It's not my turn,' and 'I do everything around here!”

Children Kids Turns Speak Language Difficult Four Strange Husband Ancient Phrases My Husband Dialect

Book:Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)

Source: Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)

“A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master as French, Spanish, or any elective second language. Like Chinese, the fine points of bickering can be discerned in the subtle rise and fall of the voice. If not practiced properly, bickering can be mistaken for its less sophisticated counterpart: whining.”

“We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.”

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