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Source: Letters concerning the love of God, between the author of the Proposal to the ladies, and Mr. John Norris: wherein his late discourse, showing that it ought to be intire and exclusive of all other loves, is further cleared and justified

“Letting yourself simply experience your difficulties without getting caught up in thoughts about how much you dislike them and in wishes that you didn't have to deal with them in the first place will change your experience of difficulties.”

Firsts Wish Change Deals Experience Difficulty Caught Dislike Caught Up

Book:Zen Meditation in Plain English

Source: Zen Meditation in Plain English

“difficulties only become problems when we separate ourselves from them instead of dealing with them directly and wholeheartedly.”

Problem Difficulty Wholeheartedly

Book:Zen Meditation in Plain English

Source: Zen Meditation in Plain English

“I am an incorrigible devotee to solitude, and am never so cheerful, I believe, or so unruffled by small difficulties as when I'm alone. There's a sort of obligation to be polite and pleasant to yourself when nobody else is round.”

Believe I Believe Solitude Difficulty Rounds Obligation Pleasant Polite Cheerful Devotee Incorrigible

Book:Letters of Susan Hale

Source: Letters of Susan Hale

“I have a very hyper-sensitive sister, and when she saw in the papers the next day that I had proclaimed myself the daughter of an immigrant, she didn't like it at all, and was with difficulty deterred from writing to the press that my father might be an immigrant, but not hers.”

Writing Might Next Father Saws Paper Daughter Difficulty Presses Sensitive Immigrants Next Day Papers Hyper

Author:Margaret Case Harriman

“The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.”

Thinking Way Trying Country Certain Left Successful Habit Difficulty France Being Successful Way Of Thinking

Author:Thomas Sankara

“One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.”

Photography Difficulty Explicit

Book:Known and Strange Things

Source: Known and Strange Things

“It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius might furnish the subject of a sincere and ample panegyric. The wisdom of his laws and the success of his arms rendered his administration respectable in the eyes both of his subjects and of his enemies. He loved and practised the virtues of domestic life, which seldom hold their residence in the palaces of kings.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

“If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.”

Ifs Men Humans Littles Together Common Share Labor Difficulty Relation Property Complaining Communism Enjoyment Toil Human Relations Living Together

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.”

Ifs Knows May Care Difficult Justice Greater Human Nature Theory Equal Difficulty Stronger Asking Practicals Equality And Justice

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.”

Should Matter Law Speak Justice Principles Difficulty Supreme Precision Owing Magistrates

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.”

Enough Mother Religious Difficulty Trials Mary Glances Recourse Virgin Mary Blessed Mother Mother Mary

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that everything won't come easily. No one has clear sailing on their voyage to success. You will always meet obstacles to overcome. The attainment of real success isn't based on the absence of problems, but the extraordinary ability to deal with problems. Indeed, you will find greatest satisfaction in overcoming the toughest of problems thrown your way. And only by overcoming great difficulties can you achieve greatness in this world.”

“There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and Ive always looked at life that way; Ive always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that Ive gone through.”

World Way Kids Beautiful My Own Gone Fronts Difficulty Brave Beautiful Things My Own Life

Author:Gloria Estefan

“A true friend is a friend when in difficulty”

Difficulty True Friend True Friend Is

Author:Quintus Ennius

“Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.”

Form Novel Serious Conflict Difficulty Pursuit Crafts Discussion Conquest Preoccupation Felicity Thematic

Author:Ralph Ellison

“At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.”

Humans Kind Life Is Joy Religious Promise Overcoming Difficulty Painful Peculiar Happy Endings Ordeals Religious Life

Book:The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life

Source: The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life

“If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.”

Ifs Two Evil Decision Difficulty Two Evils Lesser Of Two Evils

Author:Rajneesh

“Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, we shall never greatly err in our search for spiritual knowledge. Once losing sight of Christ, we shall find the whole Bible dark and full of difficulty.”

Mind Long Book Whole Spiritual Reading Christ Dark Views Principles Sun Losing Sight Difficulty Spiritual Knowledge Reading The Bible

Book:Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke

Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke

“One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.”

Wells Helping Race Members Difficulty Minorities Bores

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The later simple stories

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The later simple stories

“I had great difficulties learning to play initially because I could not think rhythmically properly, although it's an even-paced rhythm, I was not phrasing properly, I was too Western. It took me a while to learn to think in needed form, and the only way I could learn was just by ear.”

Thinking Way Play Form Needed Ears Difficulty Western Rhythm

Author:Richard Meale

“There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.”

Problem Difficulty Worthwhile Problem Solving

Author:Paul Theroux

“One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.”

Years Wells War Reason Fall Speak Loss Difficulty England Strikes Disaster Empires Fall Back Through The Years

Author:Norman Mailer

“What I've learned about my self over the years is that I'm pretty restless. If I multitask it's probably because I have difficulty just focusing on one thing.”

Ifs Years Self One Thing Difficulty I've Learned Restless

Author:Demetri Martin

“We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure.”

Sometimes Purpose Suffering Difficulty Endure Hopefully Ease

Book:The myth of certainty: the reflective Christian and the risk of commitment

Source: The myth of certainty: the reflective Christian and the risk of commitment

“This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of hazing. Sometimes it gets so hard, we think Him cruel. But He's only looking for men and women who will keep their cool when things go horribly wrong, a people prepared to dash into burning rooms to rescue those about to be engulfed in flames.”

People Thinking Men Mean Sometimes Hard Form Suffering Rooms Fire Holy Men And Women Difficulty Prepared Burning Flames Rescue Refined Hazing Looking For A Man

Author:Mark Galli

“Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'”

People Knows Has Beens Made Problem Inspiration Jobs Artist Certain Born Imagination Groups Poet Calling Difficulty Curiosity Privilege Solve Chosen Exclusive Setback Swarms

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.”

Understanding Differences Deals Difficulty International Distinction Regimes Diplomats Notorious Totalitarian Regimes

Author:Mona Charen

“I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.”

Thinking Way Writing Hard Problem Difficulty Happy Endings Reviewers

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it... We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.”

Want Country Nations Solutions Difficulty Relation Jew Bridges

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.”

Ends Self Challenges Ability Achieve Greatness Promise Overcoming Difficulty Tragedy Tendencies Self Reliance Reliance Rise Above Indication Sabbath Unbelief Adequacy

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”

Ifs Thinking Should Real Grows Teach Overcoming Difficulty About Yourself Forgive Yourself

Author:Maya Angelou

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