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“Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.”

Men Giving Hands Difficult Love Is Conflict Oneself Impulse

Book:Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

“It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.”

Difficult Design Morality Oneself

Author:David Chipperfield

“After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.”

Believe Persons Feelings Death Dies Difficult Oneself Unexpected Nothingness Advent

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.”

People Ifs Difficult One Thing Oneself Regimes Imposing

Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Source: Remembrance of Things Past

“To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.”

Difficult Impossible Unions Oneself

Author:Meher Baba

“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.”

“Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won't, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so.”

People May Reason Difficult Seeing Stupid Oneself Stupidity Dull Find Me Neighbour Being Stupid

Author:Elizabeth Montagu

“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

“I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.”

Ifs Men Running Difficult Talking He Man Habit Oneself Determine Vices Contrary Length Propriety

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us - it is the same love flowing between God and the soul - the soul and its neighbor. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one's own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets and guilt. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden.”

“Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.”

God Would Be Night Order Dies Difficult Christ Knowing Mankind Crime Goes On Guilt Oneself Innocent Innocence Elsewhere Survived Day And Night

Author:Albert Camus

“Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.”

Real Self Life Is Difficult Practice Knowing Theory Oneself Real Life Knowing Oneself

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.”

Should Persons Self Difficult Treats Oneself Convinced Beast Distrust

Book:Essential Turgenev

Source: Essential Turgenev