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“Meditation is not this kind of spacey stuff that makes it difficult to orient your life. If that's your experience of meditation, you're not meditating. You're tapping into the lower astral planes, which is not a healthy place for human beings to tap.”

Ifs Humans Kind Stuff Difficult Human Beings Meditation Healthy Planes Meditating Tapping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.”

Ifs Difficult Simple Profound Being True Simple Things

Author:Douglas Harding

“England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quantity, and the land that will grow wheat is absolutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena... I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turned into plenty... The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries, awaiting the genius of chemists.”

“Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.”

Thinking World Should Mind Use Earth Values Heaven Easy Difficult Wealth Sun Air Sea Glory Fairs Environmental Pleasant Glorious Sensible Profitable Giver Delighted

Book:Centuries of Meditations

Source: Centuries of Meditations

“Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult to discover how it was done. By which weapon? In whose hand? Are we driving the ecosphere to destruction simply by our growing numbers? By our greedy accumulation of wealth? Or are the machines which we have built to gain this wealth-the magnificent technology that now feeds us out of neat packages, that clothes us in man-made fibers, that surrounds us with new chemical creations-at fault?”

“The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not created primarily for us. There is no doubt that God wants us to enjoy it and even use its resources to optimize a good life for ourselves. But the ultimate purpose of creation is worship. Nature and all living things were created to glorify God.”

Source: Carpe Diem: Seize the Day

“You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.”

Want Difficult Buddhism Mindfulness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.”

Different Facts Science Difficult Term Religious Clear Theory Mathematical Precise Propositions Scientific Theory Scientific Truth Religious Truth

Book:Essays in Science

Source: Essays in Science

“It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being able to say that the world will be warmer by about a quarter of a degree in the next decade. It's the same reason we had 10 years ago when we said that the 1990s would be warmer than the 1980s: The planet is out of equilibrium.”

World Years Said Reason Would Be Able Next Difficult Natural Planets Degrees Years Ago Decades Arguing Global Warming Quarters Equilibrium Variability

Author:James Hansen

“Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.”

Death Easy Difficult Dying

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think if you have a preconceived idea before shopping, that makes it difficult. You have to have an open mind.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Trying Mind Ideas Difficult Seasons Shopping Need You Open Mind I Need You Preconceived Ideas

Author:Julia Child

“Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.”

People Problem Difficult Emotion Difficulty Cinema Existential Vague Auteurs

Author:Charlotte Rampling

“There are a lot of difficult situations that lead to awkwardness.”

Difficult Situation Awkwardness Difficult Situations

Author:Jemaine Clement

“Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.”

Writing Trying Difficult Born Expression Outdated

Author:Agnes Denes

“The idea that you could stitch together every detail episode to episode and preserve continuity for the length of a season and tell a story while using no time cuts, no flashbacks, nothing but pure real time just seemed too difficult.”

Ideas Real Stories Together Difficult Cutting Pure Seasons Details Preserves Length Episodes Continuity Stitches Flashback

Author:Michael Loceff

“I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Facts Difficult Known Gay Kissing Sexuality Screens Homosexuality Well Known Convincing Frogs Kiss Me

Author:Stephen Fry

“When you put someone on therapy, you lower the level of virus such that it makes it very difficult for them to infect others.”

Difficult Levels Therapy Viruses

Author:Anthony S. Fauci

“The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.”

Enough Difficult Television Series Shooting Difficult Things Enough Time

Author:Greg Bryk

“You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.”

Knows Difficult Laughing Cameras Hardest Things To Do Hardest Thing Hardest Thing To Do

Author:Vera Farmiga

“On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.”

Stills I Can Film Difficult Film Set

Author:Carey Mulligan

“Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original.”

People Feels Causes Difficult Originals Protective Difficult Things Remakes

Author:Carey Mulligan

“There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.”

Form Felt Difficult Comedy Color Like You Commit

Author:Donal Logue

“It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?”

World Children Fighting Grows Difficult Natural Growing Up Rights Position Mouths Our Children Your Children Right Thing Natural Rights

Author:Jamie Bell

“If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.”

Ifs Looks Turns Difficult Stores Buying Furniture Difficult Things Sofas

Author:David Brooks

“We don't know the end from the beginning the way that God does. So when a child dies, sure that is incredibly difficult, and when you are the parent, there is almost nothing anybody can say to you that makes any sense.”

Knows Way Children Doe Ends Dies Parent Difficult

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Saying "muff" to someone and trying to be romantic is incredibly difficult.”

Trying Difficult

Author:Jamie Bell

“It's very difficult to say anything in Icelandic. I can say "takk," which means "thank you." That's about all I learned.”

Mean I Can Difficult Say Anything

Author:Kit Harington

“Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.”

Should Made Two Sometimes Feelings Seems Life Is Difficult Cutting Temptation Former Ties Dependent Strongest Former Life

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.”

Ifs Difficult Fantasy Development All Things Simplicity Fragments

Author:Carl Jung

“It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.”

Want Difficult Chance Decision Situation Reflection Difficult Decisions

Author:John Henry Newman

“It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.”

Easy Difficult Modesty Modest

Author:Jules Renard

“The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.”

Two Difficult Civilization Draws Ears Rings Boundaries Noses Civilized Savages Barbarism

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.”

Easy Difficult Appreciate Criticize

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.”

May Desire Difficult Objects Like You Sight Senses Cheer Cheerfulness Refrain Banquets Good Cheer

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.”

Writing Trying Firsts Book Reading Difficult Originals Trade Productions Destroying Daring Books And Reading Great Author

Author:Andre Maurois

“I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.”

Has Beens Difficult Tasks Careful Be Careful Say Anything Difficult Tasks

Book:The Portable Mark Twain

Source: The Portable Mark Twain

“All things are difficult before they are easy.”

“It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.”

Difficult Unjust One Love

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.”

Thinking World Difficult Century Highest Bible Praise Vices Twentieth Century Vice Versa Sellers Best Sellers

Book:The Image or What Happened to the American Dream

Source: The Image or What Happened to the American Dream

“I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.”

Found Difficult Intellectual Intellect

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.”

Men Lying Easy Difficult Path Journey Duty

Book:The works of mencius

Source: The works of mencius

“Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.”

Knows Men Long Difficult Numbers Secret Regard Secrecy

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.”

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!”

Difficult Guilt Betray Alas Countenance

Author:Ovid

“But spirituality, it seems to me, when answering the question, "Why should I be good? Why should I care for others?" says, "Because that is the best, most fulfilling way to live" Whether or not you receive an award or a payment is incidental. You are good and kind and loving because it is right, even though it is difficult sometimes. It fulfills the highest law, to treat others as we wish to be treated.”

Way Should Kind Sometimes Seems Care Law Spirituality Wish Difficult Highest Treats Be Good Treated Awards Should I I Care Fulfilling Payment Way To Live

Author:Philip Gulley

“Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.”

Should Self Easy Difficult Emotion Discipline Negative Self Discipline Negative Emotions Conscientiousness

Author:Dalai Lama

“In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.”

World Writing States Difficult Satire

Author:Juvenal

“If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.”

Source: Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...

“May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.”

People May Difficult Confidence Solitude Gains

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.”

Has Beens Difficult Serious Tasks Difficulty

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet