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“For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.”

Lying Moral Bears My Friends Difficulty Pressure Immediate Family

Author:Andrei Sakharov

“We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent and lead to their extinction. But when it comes to our own species, we have difficulty seeing the connection between short-term kindness and long-term cruelty; we give women money to have more children, making them more dependent with each child and discouraging them from developing the tools to fend for themselves. The real discrimination against women, then, is 'free feeding'.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.”

Source: Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation

“For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.”

Needs Hard Kindness Worry Loneliness Bears Difficulty Unsatisfied

Book:Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence

Source: Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence

“Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.”

Earth Rich Bears Creating Difficulty Misery

Book:The Threepenny Opera

Source: The Threepenny Opera

“I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience bears that out. No one's interested in the experiences of a stranger - let's put it that way. And then you have difficulty combined with presumptuousness, which is the most dire trouble with poetry.”

Thinking Way Trying Trouble Bears Difficulty Stranger

Author:Billy Collins

“A trouble with poetry is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the reader's part in the poet's autobiographical life, in the poet's memories, problems, difficulties and even minor perceptions. I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience bears that out. No one's interested in the experiences of a stranger - let's put it that way. And then you have difficulty combined with presumptuousness, which is the most dire trouble with poetry.”

Thinking Way Trying Problem Interest Memories Trouble Poet Bears Reader Perception Difficulty Stranger Granted Poetry Is Minors

Author:Billy Collins

“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”

Thinking Inspiration Order Force Bears Solutions Difficulty Deep Thinking

Author:Niels Bohr

“The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.”

“It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?”

“Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.”

Sometimes Hard Seems Purpose Challenges Bears Difficulty Enormous

Author:Barbara Walters

“Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.”

Helping Today Christian Grows Bears Tomorrow Difficulty Fruit Patient Christian Inspirational Be Patient

Book:God's Inspirational Promises

Source: God's Inspirational Promises

“The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.”

Spiritual Life Is Choices Difficult Existence Bears Cost Difficulty Charity Spiritual Life Retreat Invitations Consoling

Book:The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed

Source: The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed

“Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.”

Thinking Spirit Certain Attention Greatness Bears Victory Honor Difficulty Depth Luxury Contests Disgrace Coping Magnitude

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.”