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“While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing? I must and shall benefit them, but without ever succumbing to the poison of self-importance.”

Self Benefits Tasks Importance Difficulty Buddhist Engaged Poison Encounters Inferiors Self-importance Succumbing

Author:Shantideva

“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most “intellectual” piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning?”

“He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form; he must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the subject has to encounter and dispose of; else he will never really possess himself of the portion of truth which meets and removes that difficulty.”

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Author:John Stuart Mill

“Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.”

Ifs Doe Self Memories Chance Mines Judgment Tools Difficulty Presses Judgement Confused Encounters Lacking Embarrassed Distrust Stunned Chance Encounters

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Trying Doe Opportunity Given Ready Giving Up Difficulty Perseverance Encounters Prime Given Up Keep Trying Prime Of Life

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.”

World Force Virtue This World Difficulty Superiors Encounters

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.”

People Kind Sometimes Suffering Wealth Cases Rich Doubt Materials Amount Anxiety Bigger Difficulty Encounters Wealthy Material Wealth Doubt And Fear

Author:Dalai Lama

“I learned, viscerally, something that I knew intellectually: that I cannot protect my daughter from the difficulties as she may encounter in her search for her own identity, and that she will be OK. She has a sisterhood to share the experience with, in addition to her family.”

May Share Identity Protect Daughter Difficulty Encounters My Daughter Sisterhood

Author:Linda Goldstein Knowlton

“Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will, that encounter with difficulty which he calls effort; and it is astonishing to find how often results apparently impracticable are then made possible.”

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Author:Samuel Smiles

“Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless; we lose energy as a result of weariness and difficulties, and our fervor dies out. The Church urgently needs the deep breath of prayer, and to my great joy groups devoted to prayer and intercession, the prayerful reading of God's word and the perpetual adoration of the Eucharist are growing at every level of ecclesial life.”

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

“When we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.”

Dream Difficulty Make Sense Encounters Our Dreams

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.”

Men Needs Kind Different Problem Spiritual Process Learning Path Experience Difficulty Encouragement Adversity Obstacles Encounters Different Kinds Spiritual Path Cleansing

Author:Sai Baba

“Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit markets easily adapt to whatever difficulties a free society throws in their way. Also, efforts to curtail the supply of firearms inflict collateral damage on freedom and privacy interests that have long been considered central to American public life.”

Way Long Law Interest Effort Gun Difficulty Intense Damage Encounters Privacy Users Regulation Gun Control Public Life Free Society Scrutiny Firearms Collateral Collateral Damage

Author:Daniel D. Polsby

“God does not deal our karma to us as a punishment. Karma is a manifestation of an impersonal law as well as a personal one. The purpose of our bearing our karma is that karma is our teacher. We must learn the lessons of how and why we misused the energy of life. Until that day comes when we recognize the Law of God as a Law of Love, we will probably encounter difficulties. But if we will only hasten that day's coming into our own life, we will recognize that karma is actually grace and beauty and joy. [and love and awareness and hope! -EM]”

Ifs Wells Doe Law Joy Purpose Energy Deals Grace Teacher Awareness Lessons And Love Difficulty Karma Punishment Manifestation Encounters Ems Misused Energy Of Life

Author:Elizabeth Clare Prophet

“When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.”

Trying Break Difficulty Encouragement Encounters Contradiction Gentleness Around The Bend

Book:Spiritual maxims

Source: Spiritual maxims

“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”

Men Liberty Please Difficulty Passing Passings Encounters Frontiers Candide

Book:VOLTAIRE’S ROMANCES: 20+ Novels, Short Stories, Satires & Fables (Illustrated): Candide, Zadig, The Huron, Plato's Dream, Micromegas, The White Bull, The Princess of Babylon, The Sage and the Atheist, The Man of Forty Crowns, Bababec, Ancient Faith and Fable, The Study of Nature…

Source: VOLTAIRE’S ROMANCES: 20+ Novels, Short Stories, Satires & Fables (Illustrated): Candide, Zadig, The Huron, Plato's Dream, Micromegas, The White Bull, The Princess of Babylon, The Sage and the Atheist, The Man of Forty Crowns, Bababec, Ancient Faith and Fable, The Study of Nature…

“The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.”

Giving Trying Problem Body Ambition Ideals Difficulty Encounters Narcissism

Book:Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life

Source: Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life

“Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.”

Thinking Humans Human Nature Goes On Difficulty Determined Resistance Despite Encounters Wasting Time Inclination Discouraged Persevere

Author:Brother Lawrence

“The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.”

Inspirational Inspiration Motivational Goal Positive Thinking Higher Difficulty Significant Encounters Toughness Mental Strength Feeling Stuck

Book:Sermons for the new life

Source: Sermons for the new life

“Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.”

Passion Energy Pride Fame Ambition Overcoming Difficulty Perseverance Resistance Encounters Proportion Persevere

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.”

Ifs Giving May Mean Ends Wisdom Care Victory Giving Up Difficulty Finals Bounds Take Care Encounters Quests Sooner Or Later Reverse Not Giving Up

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.”

May Motivational Remember Ability Please Overcoming Difficulty Defeat Encounters Defeated Express Yourself Define You

Author:Maya Angelou

“I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find it within myself to extend sympathy, attention, and support. When they are grieved, I listen with openness and gentle strength. I offer loyalty, friendship, and human understanding. Without undermining or enabling, I aid and assist others to find their strength. I allow the healing power of the Universe to flow through me, soothing the hearts and feelings of those I encounter.”

“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

“How you experience your life depends on how you look at it. If you look at it as a constant stream of difficulties and challenges, messes and problems, it will show up that way. If, on the other hand, you see it as a continuing flow of good fortune, one good thing after another, that is what you will encounter.”

Ifs Way Looks Shows Problem Hands Challenges Depends Flow Difficulty Constant Good Things Fortune Mess Streams Encounters Continuing Good Fortune

Author:Neale Donald Walsch