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“The lot of man-to suffer and die.”

Men Suffering Dies Difficulty Coping

Book:Odyssey

Source: Odyssey

“Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.”

Remember Succeed Difficulty Toil Coping

Book:The Complete Plays of Sophocles

Source: The Complete Plays of Sophocles

“Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.”

Humans Life Is Evil Difficulty Adversity Good Things Prosperity Human Life Grieving Rejoice Stable Moderation Coping

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)

“Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.”

Body Happens Choices Ability Responsibility Difficulty Regard Obstacles Legs Sickness Coping Hindrance Ability To Choose

Book:The Handbook of Epictetus

Source: The Handbook of Epictetus

“Though the path is plain and smooth for men of good will, he who walks it will not travel far, and will do so only with difficulty, if he does not have good feet: that is, courage and a persevering spirit.”

Ifs Men Doe Spirit Walks Path Feet Difficulty Saint Smooth Good Will

Author:John of the Cross

“A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation. Everyone is grateful for it. It improves every human relationship, it brings new courage to people facing difficulties, and it brings out the best in everyone. So, give appreciation generously whenever you can. You will never regret it.”

People Giving Humans Looks Would Be Awareness Regret Habit Appreciate Difficulty Grateful Appreciation Generous Human Relations Human Relationships Never Regret

Author:Carl Holmes

“The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.”

Firsts Difficult Trouble First Time Appreciate Difficulty Appreciation Classroom Problem Solving Administrative Administrative Professionals Day Administrative Professionals

Author:Walter J. West

“The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.”

“Although the way ahead [for immunology] is full of pitfalls and difficulties, this is indeed an exhilarating prospect. There is no danger of a shortage of forthcoming excitement in the subject. Yet, as always, the highlights of tomorrow are the unpredictabilities of today.”

Way Today Science Subjects Danger Tomorrow Difficulty Excitement Shortage Highlights Exhilarating Pitfalls Unpredictability Forthcoming

Author:Cesar Milstein

“And this has been man's stupidity - a very ancient one: whenever he gets into difficulty, he changes the word. Change the word marriage into soul mates, but don't change yourself. And you are the problem, not the word; any word will do. A rose is a rose is a rose...you can call it by any name. You are asking to change the concept, you are not asking to change yourself.”

Men Has Beens Soul Problem Names Marriage Concepts Difficulty Asking Rose Ancient Stupidity Mates Soul Mate Don't Change Change Yourself

Author:Rajneesh

“My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.”

Men World Friendship This World My Friends Difficulty

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“We must practice revolutionary democracy in every aspect of our Party life. Every responsible member must have the courage of his responsibilities, exacting from others a proper respect for his work and properly respecting the work of others. Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.”

People Lying Easy Party Mistake Responsibility Practice Democracy Victory Members Mass Aspect Claims Difficulty Responsible Revolutionary Mask

Author:Amilcar Cabral

“Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.”

Easy Prayer Answers Degrees Difficulty Hardest Omnipotent

Book:The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears

Source: The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears

“What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.”

Light Depends Shadow Difficulty Crisis

Book:Concise Survey of the Bible

Source: Concise Survey of the Bible

“I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk know this and fight very hard, but after a few years life gets easier for them and they think they've become completely human when they've only stopped trying. I stopped trying, but my life was so full of strenuous routines that I wouldn't have noticed had it been not for my disease. My whole professional life was a diseased and grandiose attack on my humanity. It is an achievement to know that I am simply a wounded and dying man. Who can be more regal than a dying man?”

“The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.”

Men Becoming Doctors Difficulty Medicine Patient Horizontal

Author:Shana Alexander

“What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.”

Life Should Running Actors Stars Easy Difficult Trouble Office Difficulty Movie Movie Star Millionaire Easy To Get

Book:The feminine eye

Source: The feminine eye

“For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.”

Men Way Want Life May Self Success Fighting Simple Impossible Achieve Crosses Difficulty Simplicity Engaged Self Control Gifted Restraint Equanimity Rendering Self Restraint

Book:Character. Repr

Source: Character. Repr

“It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.”

Men Life Effort Decided Overcoming Difficulty Ease Stations Facility Measure Of Success

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out, but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate, we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain.”

Ifs Life Should Trying May Suffering Difficult Cities Conditions Periods Quiet Difficulty Pressure Rate Bounds Experiments Pace Strain Moderates Fatigue Gears

Author:Robert McCracken

“Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.”

Life Easy Difficult Change Inspirational Life Depends Becoming Gratitude Difficulty Oneself Changing Your Life Adjustment Difficult Life Thinking Flexibly

Author:Morarji Desai

“The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.”

Men Life Doe Real States Whole Differences Learning Trouble Performances Difficulty Average Kicks Bowls Pins Differentiate Irritation Average Man Mules

Author:Herbert Newton Casson

“How did they manage to raise their children in righteousness? The principles become part of their lives, and when it becomes part of their life, it isn't difficult to do.”

Life Children Difficult Principles Difficulty Raises Manage Righteousness

Author:David B. Haight

“Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.”

Life Trying Christian Religion Prayer Our Lives Difficulty Seeking Stem

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and even then it cost the life of four of his party. Now, however, any tourist can be hauled up for a small cost, and perhaps does not appreciate the difficulty of the original ascent. So in mathematics, it may be found hard to realise the great initial difficulty of making a little step which now seems so natural and obvious, and it may not be surprising if such a step has been found and lost again.”

“I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.”

“The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.”

Way Important Problem Values Design Difficulty Simplicity Complexity Software Ambitious Elegance Software Design Simplicity And Elegance

Author:Fernando J. Corbato

“One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.”

“Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.”

Should Easy Loses Challenges Despair Sight Difficulty Obstacles African American Neglect Presumption Utter Despair

Author:Benjamin Banneker

“Dealing with our overweight - or with any of our life's difficulties, for that matter - is not a battle to be fought. Instead, we must learn how to make friends with our hardships and challenges. They are there to help us; they are natural opportunities for deeper understanding and transformation, brining us more joy and peace as we learn to work with them.”

Matter Helping Motivational Joy Opportunity Understanding Natural Challenges Our Lives Battle Difficulty Transformation Deeper Hardship Overweight Deeper Understanding

Book:Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life

Source: Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life

“What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?”

Ifs States Able United United States Clear Messages Weapons Difficulty Endure Nuclear Iran Nuclear Weapons Sanctions

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it . . . for my loved ones.”

Love Difficult Amount Difficulty Loved Ones

Author:Susan Sullivan

“It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem”

Love Giving Long Difficult Giving Up Difficulty Long Love

Author:Catullus

“Keeping the commandments of God is not a difficult burden when we do it out of love of him who has so graciously blessed us.”

Love Difficult Difficulty Blessed Burden Commandments Commandments Of God

Author:Delbert L. Stapley

“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”

Difficulty Encouragement Philosophical Simplicity Planning Resolve Divides

Author:Rene Descartes

“There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.”

Passion Found Christ Sleep Powerful Difficulty Catholic Wounds Secure Heat Purity Savior Remedy Remembrance New Life Chastity Purity Purity And Love Passion And Purity

Author:Saint Augustine

“No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.”

Inspirational Heart May Soul Motivational Able Strong Grows Failing Overcoming Difficulty Abandoned Aspire

Book:The Spiritual Life

Source: The Spiritual Life

“Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate.”

Stills Sometimes Challenges Poor Worst Training Overcoming Difficulty Spelling

Book:Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography

Source: Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography

“Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.”

Work Plans Difficulty

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times. Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn.”

“We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.”

Inspirational Self Process Involved Decided Difficulty Purification

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.”

People Doe Influence Difficulty Defeat Lack Of Faith

Book:How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World

Source: How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World

“We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.”

Knows Years Hard Moments Jobs Remember House Know How Alive Sacrifice Car Willing Hard Work Mom Ten Difficulty Present Moment Live In The Present Being A Mom Diploma Peace Is Every Step

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit? Years later, the dean of students at Harvard told me that my letter had been posted in the dean’s office for the amusement of the staff. Thus did I learn the measure of institutional arrogance.”

Years Students Office Letters Difficulty University Arrogance Staff Amusement Explaining Harvard Dean Pennsylvania University Of Pennsylvania

Book:How to Win the Nobel Prize

Source: How to Win the Nobel Prize

“Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.”

World Giving Stories Novel Difficulty Threat Terror Love Story Torture Regimes Hostile Spy Dominion Imprisonment Dissidents Totalitarian Regimes

Author:C.J. Sansom

“Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities.”

Inspirational Faces Opportunity Goal Powerful Difficulty Adversity Pursue

Author:Dhirubhai Ambani

“Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty”

Inspirational Effort Practice Demand Difficulty Excellence Deliberate Deliberate Practice

Author:K. Anders Ericsson

“We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.”

Thinking Way Problem Government Share Difficulty Independent Federal Government Stubborn Better Ways Discussing

Author:Dan Miller

“You know, this dialogue is only helpful when we come, both of us, to a point where we realize that no dialogue is possible, that no dialogue is necessary. When I say understanding or seeing, they mean something different to me. Understanding is a state of being where the question isn't there any more. There is nothing there that says, "Now I understand!" That's the basic difficulty between us. By understanding what I am saying, you are not going to get anywhere.”

Knows Mean Different States Language Understanding Realizing Seeing Difficulty Dialogue Helpful

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.”