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“Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet for all but the very fortunate and the very foolish, this difficult transition is an inevitable part of the human experience, of the ceaseless learning journey that is life - because, after all, anything worth pursuing is worth failing at, and fail we do as we pursue.”

Humans Asks Easy Difficult Love Is Behinds Failing Journey Leaving Foolish Pursue Inevitable Fortunate Transition Human Experience

Author:Maria Popova

“Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.”

Ifs Trying Stills Difficult Moral Produce Willing Scientist Manners Laboratory Assistants

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.”

Thinking Jobs Difficult Acting Calling Shallow Irrelevant Eighty Flip

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“"Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next."”

Knows Hard Character Next Difficult Interesting Minutes Rounds Dear Captains One Minute Interesting Characters Navigation

Book:Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export

Source: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export

“'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it.”

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

“The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Humans Art Poetry Certain Difficult Moral Awareness Art Is Function Primaries Efficient Deceiving

Author:W. H. Auden

“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.”

Soul Ends Feelings Might Spirit Difficult Consciousness Higher Pure Ego Conscious Function Infinite Structure Senses Preserves Sublime Reducing Abolish Immediacy

Author:Kenny Smith

“The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can't control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in.”

Ifs World Trying Mean Hard Universe Difficult Impossible Packs Difficult Things World Love Exaggerating

Book:#Girlboss

Source: #Girlboss

“Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.”

Easy Difficult Guitar Guitar Playing

Author:Kirk Hammett

“People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.”

People World Matter Difficult Talking This World Communication Lonely Isolated Superficial Personal Things

Author:Theodore Zeldin

“The idea of a hell that involves some kind of eternal punishment at the hands of a just and holy God is so profoundly difficult for us to handle emotionally, that the only person who would have enough authority to convince us of the reality of such a place would be Jesus Himself.”

Kind Persons Ideas Enough Hands Reality Would Be Jesus Difficult Hell Holy Authority Eternal Punishment Handle Convince Convince Us Holy God

Author:John Gerstner

“There is nothing more difficult for me to correct than my intentions, for it continually attempts to change.”

Difficult Intention

Author:Sufyan al-Thawri

“I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.”

Ifs Way Writing Firsts Persons Character Difficult Comfortable Thirds First Person Third Person

Author:Patti Davis

“Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you're looking for something you've never lost.”

Lost Difficult

Author:Meher Baba

“Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult. Much of the skepticism of our world can be traced back to broken trust.”

People World Believe Has Beens Difficult Broken Tough Occasions Our World Skepticism Multiple

Author:Dillon Burroughs

“We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It's easy to call for revenge, to claim injustice, and to launch an attack. It's much more difficult to forgive, to call for peace, to lay down weapons.”

Easy Difficult Forget Calling Weapons Claims Forgiving Lays Injustice Revenge Courageous

Author:Dillon Burroughs

“New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.”

People Feels Trying Moments Causes Difficult Community Disease Anxiety Bird Tough Worried Flu Very Sad Difficult Moments Sars Bird Flu

Author:Margaret Chan

“War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.”

War Difficult Natural Risk Dangerous Disaster Violent Zone Protest Natural Disaster War Zones

Author:Kate Adie

“The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we're likely to eventually find ourselves in a situation in which we're forced to make difficult choices about our parents, other loved ones, or even ourselves that ultimately boil down to calculations of worth and value.”

People Mean Care Values Choices Parent Difficult Quality Situation Development Health Care Loved Ones Calculations Difficult Choices

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.”

Way Believe Art Asks Language I Believe Difficult Challenges Answers Serious Reader Argument Metaphor Works Of Art Essays Difficult Questions

Author:George Steiner

“A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. I want you to remember that.The answers have all been written. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.”

Knows Way Want Feels Book Problem Remember Reading Lost Difficult Answers Existence Know How Written Confused Maps I Want You Difficult Times Lost And Confused

Author:Matt Haig

“I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber”

Ifs Thinking Stills Enough Easy Difficult Moral Crime Planets Drug Weak Addiction Alcohol Ruins Substance Controlled Acceptable Unfortunate Addict Stigma Fiber Alcohol Addiction Moral Fiber

Author:Brian Molko

“As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic and glamorous and that you wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.”

“Liz Taylor was an amazing woman and screen legend. She was an incredible friend to my brother, at his side through some of his most difficult times and of course loved by his children and our family. She will live on in our hearts forever, my prayers go out to her family.”

Heart Children Courses Difficult Sides Prayer Forever Brother Incredibles Screens Our Family My Brother Legends Difficult Times Liz Amazing Woman

Author:LaToya Jackson

“I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.”

Ifs Stills Hands Difficult Rooms Novel Taken Computer Phones Pet Noisy

Author:David Nicholls

“Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most of her program around fiercely difficult contemporary works. She has fingers that work like chrome-plated pistons, and her high-seated position let her bring pulverizing power to bear.”

“Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.”

“It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.”

Knows Difficult Sells

Author:Bernard Baruch

“Just as Jesus learned obedience by the things He suffered, we learn obedience by the difficult circumstances we face. When we obey the Word of God that is spoken by the Holy Spirit, we will grow and mature in the times of conflict and suffering. Our knowledge of Scripture is not the key. Obedience is.”

Faces Spirit Suffering Jesus Grows Difficult Keys Circumstances Holy Conflict Scripture Obedience Holy Spirit Mature Word Of God Difficult Circumstances

Book:The Bait Of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense

Source: The Bait Of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense

“I think, like, Twitter is somewhat difficult sometimes, and it can be kind of negative.”

Thinking Kind Sometimes Difficult Negative Be Kind

Author:Chrissy Teigen

“Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.”

People Sometimes Use Difficult Edges Rough Negative People People In Your Life Betterment Rough Edges Difficult Relationship Sandpaper

Author:Joel Osteen

“When you come to a dark valley, a difficult season or a sickness, don't worry about it, God will give you the grace and strength you need.”

Needs Giving Difficult Dark Worry Grace Seasons Gods Will Sickness Valleys Ups & Downs Good Times And Bad Times

Author:Joel Osteen

“We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.”

Difficult Impossible Favors Tolerance Tolerate Difficult Things

Author:George D. Prentice

“Everyone has a right to be interested in himself, and I am confident that God wants us to be interested in ourselves first; that is, the first soul that anyone should bring to God should be his own soul. We cannot do very much for anyone else until we have first done something for ourselves. That is, it is pretty difficult to give someone else an education unless we have some education ourselves. It is pretty hard to get someone else to think unless we ourselves are thinkers.”

Thinking Want Giving Should Firsts Soul Hard Done Difficult Thinker Want U

Author:Sterling W Sill

“On the Cross the Jesus of the Four Gospels, who was God, cried out My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? God cannot forsake himself, Jesus was God himself. Yet God forsook Jesus, and the latter cried out to know why he was forsaken. Any able divine will explain that of course he knew, and that he was not forsaken. The explanation renders it difficult to believe the dying cry, and the passage becomes one of the mysteries of the holy Christian religion, which, unless a man rightly believe, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.”

Source: Why do Men Starve? Who Was Jesus Christ? Poverty: Its Effects on the Political Condition of the People and other Essays

“When we're in the middle of a difficult time, we have to speak against that lie that says, "God is not here." We have to draw near to God.”

Lying Speak Difficult Middle Draws Difficult Times

Author:Max Lucado

“December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.”

People Feels Seems Difficult Loss Months Insomnia December Medication All Alone

Author:Max Lucado

“My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl.”

Thinking Children Hard Character Feelings Kids Difficult Loneliness Dad Connections My Children Isolation Tragic Difficult Times Edward Scissorhands

Author:Johnny Depp

“Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind of masculinity - the drunk kind, the king who will yell the worst nationalist's ideas. In front of those, it is very difficult to be a dignified woman.”

Men Kind Ideas Certain Difficult Worst Fronts Produce Football Kings Drunk Warrior Stereotype Conform Hunters Masculinity Singularity

Author:Orlan

“It's very rewarding to see the movie, and it's very rewarding to make the movie, but playing the character [Riddick] is sometimes a lot more difficult than other characters because it takes so much preparation to get into that character.”

Sometimes Character Difficult Preparation

Author:Vin Diesel

“The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.”

Needs Writing I Can Song Difficult Can Do Orchestra Writing Songs Assignments

Author:Randy Newman

“It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.”

Mother Father Strong Difficult Imagine Baby Partners Imagine That Unbearable Life Partner

Author:Michael Haneke

“What makes an interview 'difficult'? Well, there are many reasons, but the end result is usually the same: The guest just doesn't seem comfortable answering the question.”

Wells Ends Reason Seems Difficult Results Comfortable Interviews Guests End Results

Author:Michael Leunig

“We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we have to do this, we have to have a half-hour of yoga, an hour of meditation, 2 hours of this, and then 12 hours of work and non-stop electronic gadgets, gizmos etc. etc., and then go home and take care of the family, and then take the children to wherever, and what tends to happen is we do way too much. The society does way too much. One of the greatest things in healing is try for just one day to do nothing. Very difficult.”

“The commercialism of yoga, the commercialism of Ayurveda, the commercialism of guru-ism, is difficult. It's difficult because it confuses, it confuses the general populations as to what this is all about, but yet those of us who are trained within a certain tradition, who trained from the ancestral gene bank, so to speak, it is fine, it's not bothersome at all because we must live.”

Certain Speak Difficult Fine Yoga Tradition Population Genes Guru Isms Commercialism Ayurveda

Author:Maya Tiwari

“I feel badly for them, not sorry, but badly, because I think they've been given poor breaks and difficult, not sufficient opportunity to be who they are and sort of put into that straitjacket with the tie, and all of the things that is really built like a straitjacket when you look at it, and tied up in a sort of a way where their purpose had to be slimmed down to just certain things, and function pared down to the linear, and it is very difficult for men.”

Thinking Men Way Feels Looks Purpose Certain Opportunity Given Difficult Poor Break Built Function Sorry Ties Sufficient Tied Linear Tied Up Not Sorry

Author:Maya Tiwari

“Frankly, I think that fur on a man is difficult to pull off. If it's the warmth you're after, then I'd go with a fur-lined coat - it won't show.”

Ifs Thinking Men Shows Difficult Warmth Coats Fur

Author:Tim Gunn

“Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.”

Years Kind Two Ends Film Process Difficult Comedy Finals Shooting Two Years Editing Polish Comedic

Author:John Cleese

“It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.”

Trying Difficult Blue Scratches

Author:John Cleese

“When there's something that impacts a family member or friend, that is difficult for them, you want to do what you can to help. Sometimes you can't do anything and it makes you feel like you're helpless, so those emotions cross a big barometer, but they're a big, broad stroke when it comes to someone who you care about. If you have compassion in your heart, you just care.”

Ifs Want Feels Heart Sometimes Helping Bigs Care Difficult Emotion Compassion Like You Members Crosses Impact Broads Helpless Strokes Family Members Barometer

Author:Queen Latifah

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