“Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.” PersonsDifficultAttitudeSpecialDyingTasksDiedAccomplishedAdmirationDeath And DyingDifficult Tasks Author:Sigmund Freud
“What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.” PeopleIfsWantImportantDifficultUnderstandingSpecialSubjectsOvercomingDifficultyObviousIntellectSignificantInstructionContrast Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951 Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
“This kind of internal "telepathic" intercourse, which was to serve me in all my wanderings, was at first difficult, innefective, and painful. But in time I came to be able to live through the experiences of my host with vividness and accuracy, while yet preserving my own individuality, my own critical intelligence, my own desires and fears. Only when the other had come to realize my presence within him could he, by a special act of volition, keep particular thoughts secret from me.” FirstsKindAbleDesireDifficultRealizingMy OwnSecretSpecialParticularIndividualityPainfulCriticalWanderInternalsHostIntercourseAccuracyVolitionVividness Book:Star Maker Source: Star Maker
“Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.” TryingCountryHomeDifficultSpecialLiberation Book:Green Dolphin Country Source: Green Dolphin Country
“I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.” HeartMotherDifficultSituationSpecialMy HeartResourcesSpecial PlacesDifficult SituationsSingle Mother Author:Linda Lael Miller
“Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.” HumansWholeBitsDifficultMoralPiecesSpecialTasteWorkshopsMosaicsCarpentry Author:Eliza Lynn Linton