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“Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.”

Feels Years Soul Spirituality Grows Deals Progress Goes On Higher Difficulty Deeper Conquer Acquire Faculty Worth Living Acquisition Unfolding Life Worth Living Descending

Book:Self-culture, lectures

Source: Self-culture, lectures

“The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.”

World Soul Body Energy Rich Duty Exercise Overcoming Difficulty Conquer Occasions Selfishness Acquire Midst Faculty Mature Efficient Scope Vigor Robust Indolence Employing

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.”

Men Doe Leadership Difficulty Increase Acquire

Author:Dominique Sutton

“What you want to acquire, you should dare to acquire by any means. What you want to see, even though it is with difficulty, you should see. You should not let it pass, thinking there will be another chance to see it or acquire it. It is quite unusual to have a second chance to materialize your desire.”

Thinking Want Should Mean Desire Chance Difficulty Dare What You Want Acquire Unusual Second Chance Another Chance

Author:Yosa Buson

“If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.”

Ifs Want Desire Objects Difficulty Determined Obsession Acquire Convince Convincing Convincing Yourself

Book:Get Rich Collection

Source: Get Rich Collection

“It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.”

Real Hard Deserve Difficulty Fortune Acquire

Book:Opinions, Random Reflections, and Wayside Sayings

Source: Opinions, Random Reflections, and Wayside Sayings

“If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.”

“We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension of the truth which they nominally recognize, so that it may penetrate the feelings, and acquire a real mastery over the conduct.... When it has come to be a hereditary creed, and to be received passively, not actively ... there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the formularies ... until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being.”

“(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.”

People Mean Ideas Real Self Accepting Self Esteem Huge Ego Importance Difficulty Terror Real Life Enormous Esteem Acquire Tied Reluctant Being Wrong

Book:PO: a device for successful thinking

Source: PO: a device for successful thinking

“I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.”

Should Has Beens Ideas Should Have Difficulty Glad Theology Acquire Hinduism Should Have Been

Book:The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]

Source: The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]

“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.”