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“Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.”

Writing Believe Important Values Successful Difficulty Sentences Despite Keep Believing

Book:Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life

Source: Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life

“It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal.”

Way Moments Seeing Subjects Eternal Photography Difficulty Passages Commonplace Passage Of Time

Author:George A Tice

“I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.”

People Has Beens Country Courses Asks Laughing Periods Laughter Difficulty Critical Ask Me Contagious Laugh Often

Book:My Spiritual Journey

Source: My Spiritual Journey

“The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.”

Running Death My Friends Difficulty Faster Avoiding Unrighteousness Avoiding Death

Author:Socrates

“Especially when there are difficulties in our relations, parties and statesmen in China and Japan should look over the situation from a higher point of view and preserve the political foundation of bilateral ties.”

Should Looks Political Views Party Situation Higher Difficulty Relation Foundation China Point Of View Preserves Ties Japan Statesmen China And Japan

Author:Wu Bangguo

“There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.”

May Decision Periods Difficulty Independent Adjustment Independent Women

Author:Rick Ross

“The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That's where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.”

People Ifs Difficulty Depth Proof Realization Collapse Our Relationship Embodiment Love Relationship Pudding

Author:Adyashanti

“We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it. The earlier we face difficulties and drawbacks, the better prepared we are to deal with the inevitable obstacles along our path.”

Faces Deals Path Difficulty Prepared Obstacles Inevitable Drawbacks

Book:The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life

Source: The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life

“Much of the present difficulty in industrial relations arises from the fact that too many employers as well as too many legislators take the Labor Leader more seriously than he deserves to be taken, while taking the ordinary, everyday, middle-of-the-road wage-earner less seriously than he deserves to be taken.”

Wells Facts Leadership Leader Taken Middle Ordinary Deserve Labor Difficulty Relation Everyday Arise Employers Legislators Middle Of The Road

Author:Whiting Williams

“Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.”

Life Lying Difficult Fate Design Inspire Fit Difficulty Simplicity Patterns Life Changing Complexity Grandeur Fate Love

Book:Prose and poetry

Source: Prose and poetry

“A difficulty journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.”

Life Inspirational Character Journey Difficulty Discussion Analysis Revealing

Author:Michael Treanor

“It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.”

Reality Difficulty Smallest

Author:Paul Klee

“You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.”

Dream Differences Watches Design Capacity Difficulty Presidential Friendly

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964

“The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.”

Mistake Hero Advantage Difficulty Former Conquer Enterprise Latter Heroism Diminish Prudent

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.”

Writing Play Reality Film Given Levels Greater Stage Difficulty Theatre Difficulty Of Writing

Author:Andrzej Wajda

“It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to provide information to their sons and daughters, and to help them deal with the post-graduate reality.”

Helping Reality Parent Deals Information Son Daughter Difficulty Employment Posts Graduates Son And Daughter

Author:Michael Parkinson

“Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal.”

Reality Age Groups Universal Difficulty Motherhood Single Mother Single Motherhood

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the voice, picking up a new key, in the treatment of the ritual chant, and overcoming vocal difficulties that lie in the words rather than in the music.”

Art Lying Voice Keys Singing Overcoming Difficulty Method Treatment Ritual Peculiar Vocal Covering Delivery

Book:Enrico Caruso: My Father and My Family

Source: Enrico Caruso: My Father and My Family

“The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity. The wits of these happy days have discovered a way to fame, which the dull caution of our laborious ancestors durst never attempt; they cut the knots of sophistry, which it was formerly the business of years to untie, solve difficulties by sudden irradiations of intelligence, and comprehend long processes of argument by immediate intuition.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.”

Kind Romance Subjects Poet Difficulty Western Eastern Comprehending

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them both equally misleading. Perhaps it will now try the third, the road of scientific truth, the only road on which the passenger is not deceived. Science does not, ostrich-like, bury its head amidst perils and difficulties. It tries to see everything exactly as everything is.”

Trying Doe Two Political Found Religious Mankind Thirds Difficulty Bigotry Deceived Peril Mislead Passengers Scientific Truth Ostriches Religious Bigotry Two Roads

Author:Garrett P. Serviss

“Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.”

Men Reason Enough Political Used Virtue Findings Difficulty Reason Why Royal Clue Outstanding

Author:Aristotle

“Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.”

Way Heart Matter Wisdom Faces Wise Alive Listening Difficulty Breathing Lungs Doorways

Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“"Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are_God sees that,but for you it is expected to trust in God and pray to Him as best you can,never to fall into despair and to struggle according to your strength.If you ever begin to think you are spiritually_"well off"_then you can know for sure that you aren't!True spiritual life,even on the most elementary level,is always accompanied by suffering and difficulties.Therefore you should rejoice in all your difficulties and sorrows."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Life Should Wells Truth Spiritual Suffering Fall Poor Levels Worry Struggle Too Much Praying Sorrow Despair Difficulty Expected Trust In God Rejoice Spiritual Life

Author:Seraphim Rose

“The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.”

Has Beens Country Skills Advantage Difficulty Kingdoms Goods Diminish Beneficial Accumulation

Book:On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

“In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in silence. When you could remember. When the evidence that had gathered could be sorted. And it was a difficulty if another person imagined these moments were their property. Your life got sliced from two sides like a supermarket salami until there was nothing left in the middle. You were the bits that had been given away right and left to others. Because they wanted the piece of you that belonged to them. Because they wanted more. Because they wanted passion. And you did not have it.”

“Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of those difficulties. They will serve as a proof of your abilities and will give you confidence when you are faced by other obstacles.”

Life Giving Inspiration Memories Ability Difficulty Good Things Obstacles Proof Rest Of Your Life Our Memories

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another.”

Giving Mind Speak Study Greater Equal Difficulty Infinite Property Arise Quantity Finite

Author:Galileo Galilei

“The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or have existed; the sudden manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature.”

Whole Known Groups Findings Difficulty Species Absence Links Formation

Book:The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text

Source: The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text

“For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.”

Form Lines Example Color Painting Materials Elements Difficulty Arise Cinema Abstract Manipulation

Book:Film Form: Essays in Film Theory

Source: Film Form: Essays in Film Theory

“Approach or come: refers not to the physical act of coming, but to the mental attitude; the heart is mentioned for sincerity. When they sincerely promise not to fight against you, do not pursue them. Remember that if they had fought against you, your difficulties would have been increased. Their neutrality itself may be a great advantage to you. So long as you are satisfied that they are sincere and their acts support their declarations of peace with you, you should not consider yourself justified in pursuing them and warring against them.”

Source: The Meaning of the Holy Qu'ran

“The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn't there a difficulty of saying 'we'? You cannot speak for me. I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say 'I'; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.”

Knows Way Said Two Speak Realizing Know How Movement Difficulty East Liberation Novelists Phrases Collectives

Author:Adrienne Rich

“We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful to our call to holiness, and many others. But if we open the door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if we share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will experience the peace and joy that only God, who is infinite love, can give.”

Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

“I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. Everyone needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God’s saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings.”

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.”

Difficult Secret Known All Things Difficulty

Author:William Butler Yeats

“A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.”

Men Trying Children Might Greater Easier Program Thirds Difficulty Population Despite Operations Elites Reducing Population Control Depopulation Vasectomy

Author:John Holdren

“To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.”

Names Easy Difficulty Appearance

Book:What is Property?

Source: What is Property?

“One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story.”

Littles Stories Might Asks Answers Majors Difficulty Corporations Marijuana Crops Tobacco

Book:Deterring Democracy

Source: Deterring Democracy

“If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.”

Ifs May Wind Difficulty Adversity Foundation Storm Harsh Testimony Icy Withstanding

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble-that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.”

Ifs May Soul Faces Order Father Challenges Break Return Periods Prove Difficulty Foundation Worthy Surface Heavenly Cracks Mortality Testimony Tested Testing Heavenly Father Embedded

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“The person who is working on his or her family history fits the description of one who is fulfilling his or her duty. I know the effort, I know the expense. I know the difficulties through which one may go to uncover one name. I know our Heavenly Father is aware of these efforts. And those for whom we perform sacred ordinances are aware of our efforts. Oftentimes, in a miraculous way, there shall appear before us a clear pathway through a field of turbulence.”

“We live in terribly complex times. We are confronted by very serious problems. Some of us are faced with sickness, with economic difficulties, with worry and concern over many matters. Our refuge, our peace, our well-being lie in walking in the way of the Lord.”

Way Wells Matter Problem Lying Lord Worry Economic Serious Walking Concern Difficulty Complexes Well Being Sickness Refuge

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“The things we hope in sustain us during our daily walk. They uphold us through trials, temptations, and sorrow. Everyone has experienced discouragement and difficulty. Indeed, there are times when the darkness may seem unbearable. It is in these times that the divine principles of the restored gospel we hope in can uphold us and carry us until, once again, we walk in the light.”

May Light Seems Walks Principles Darkness Divine Sorrow Difficulty Trials Temptation Unbearable Discouragement

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.”

Ifs Should Whole Remember Values Easy Keys Degrees Difficulty Method Investment Complexes Endure Investing Factors Alternatives Dependent Investors Shifting Variables Diving Payoff

Author:Warren Buffett

“I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.”

“A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.”

Problem Strong Conditions Difficulty Boring Routine Interrupted Happy Marriage Strong Marriage

Book:Intrusions

Source: Intrusions

“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles....He's our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

People Needs Believe Problem Education Fool Reader Paper Difficulty Educated Granted Propaganda Articles Papers Brows Skip Workmen

Author:C. S. Lewis

“With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles and difficulties. Music is nourishment, a comforting elixir. Music multiplies all that is beautiful and of value in life.”

Whole Helping Beautiful Life Is Values Trouble Music Is Difficulty Treasure Comforting Nourishment Value Of Life Future Life Elixir

Author:Zoltan Kodaly

“Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and resolving interpersonal problems, whether this is a marital conflict, an international conflict, a problem at work, difficulties in a friendship, political deadlocks, a family dispute, or a problem with a neighbor.”

Way Problem Political Conflict Empathy Universal Difficulty International Neighbor Disputes Interpersonal Personal Problems

Book:The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

Source: The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

“Understanding people's difficulties and-just as crucial-helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.”

People Way Helping Turns Understanding Deals Teaching Empathy Difficulty Crucial Concrete Helping People

Author:Kathryn Erskine

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