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“How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?”

Ifs Believe Hate Jesus Christ Jesus Christ I Hate Difficulty Being True Folly Etc Eucharist

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice.”

Ifs Feelings Practice Difficulty Stuck Boredom

Author:Rodney Yee

“If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.”

Ifs Feels Special Proud Mountain Achievement Difficulty Favors Be Proud Proud Of You

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.”

Ifs Writing Use Simple Materials Difficulty

Author:James Joyce

“If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.”

Ifs Would Be Faces Sight Difficulty Halfway

Author:John F. Kennedy

“In my life there were times when dreams have nothing to do with reality, but obviously they were prophetic dreams. And I know that if we look closely and listen carefully, we can see the supernatural signs that determine our future. We all meet with various everyday difficulties and overcoming them, we grow and develop.”

Ifs Knows Looks Dream Reality Grows Overcoming Difficulty Everyday Determine Various Our Future Prophetic

Author:Russell Crowe

“The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.”

People Ifs Way Want Nice Difficulty Behave Being Nice Conform Pleasing Others

Author:Rachel Holmes

“If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs.”

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Author:Debra Dean

“If you just think about the difficulty you'll never get anywhere.”

Ifs Thinking Difficulty

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“People who thought that she was busy going around trying to stir up difficulty where there was none or less than she imagined, were quite critical of her. She was, we must never forget, a public figure. And in democracies, public figures tend to attract criticism as well as praise. The most dangerous thing would be if anybody were regarded as above criticism. And Eleanor Roosevelt is, in recent years, getting there.”

People Ifs Trying Years Wells Would Be Forget Democracy Dangerous Figures Criticism Difficulty Praise Busy Critical Never Forget Dangerous Things Eleanor Public Figures

Author:William A. Rusher

“Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those things, and who's able? Who has the skillful means, the knowhow, the perseverance, the help, the fortitude to keep going?”

Ifs Mean Helping Able Faces Willing Difficulty Surprise Perseverance Disappointment Keep Going Fortitude Unfamiliar Skillful

Author:Surya Das

“There's a new line of research showing that people who don't get enough sleep, they're body doesn't metabolize as well. And so they actually - it leads to weight gain. So if you're not getting enough sleep, you might have difficulty losing weight.”

People Ifs Wells Enough Body Might Lines Sleep Losing Research Gains Weight Difficulty Enough Sleep

Author:Shelby Harris

“If there's a perfect family out there, we're all happy for that family. But most families aren't perfect. Most families are living with some sort of challenge or some sort of difficulty.”

Ifs Challenges Perfect Difficulty Perfect Family

Author:Louie Giglio

“I have seen a lot of people, by the way, who were pro-life become pro-choice. No one seems to have any difficulty with that at all. That's easily accepted. But, if you are pro-choice and you become pro-life, there are a lot of folks, particularly in the media, who find that unacceptable.”

People Ifs Way Seems Choices Media Difficulty Folks Accepted Pro Life

Author:Mitt Romney

“The difficulty, if you're in the world - and this is for anybody - is the eventual disappointment that comes with having to meet other versions of reality. Imposed systems that ask you to compromise or sacrifice things which you consider holy or sacred.”

Ifs World Reality Asks Sacrifice Holy Difficulty Sacred Disappointment Versions Compromise

Author:Billy Corgan

“Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.”

Ifs Kind America Remember Spirit Easy Difficult Community Common Destiny Share Illusion Tough Difficulty Harmony National Community

Author:Barbara Jordan

“This is something I think that blues music, or folk music, and all those particular genres that have a perspective about life deal with - where the difficulties of life are seen as something that are very natural and nothing to be embarrassed about, and something that we all go through; something that's part of our share of humanity. And it accepts those difficulties and pain as such. I think there's a wonderful forgiveness that can come over you, if you have that perspective on it.”

Ifs Thinking Pain Humanity Natural Deals Accepting Wonderful Share Particular Perspective Difficulty Folks Genre Over You Embarrassed Folk Music Blues Music

Author:Joan Osborne

“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]”

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Author:Elizabeth Clare Prophet

“And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.”

Ifs Faces Trouble Difficulty Squares Immense Boldness

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's involved with it. The difficulty of travel, getting all your bags packed and your work done and navigating the airports and all that. That sort of struggle.”

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Author:Ian Bogost

“I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in the work you need to.”

Ifs Needs Believe Important Difficulty Don't Believe

Author:Theodora Goss

“The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.”

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Author:Indira Gandhi

“The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.”

Author:Indira Gandhi

“Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.”

Ifs Country Fighting Individual Term Accepting Overcoming Difficulty

Author:Indira Gandhi

“If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?”

Ifs Problem Worry Solutions Difficulty Cures Remedy Solution To A Problem

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“If you've got a great crew it's intense, but its quite short. 'The Elephant Man' was longer than most, for an independent film. That was a 14 week film. But it was because of the intrinsic difficulties. We had to invent a different way of filming, because the makeup was so long. A working day for me with a full makeup on was nineteen hours. So obviously you couldn't do that twice running.”

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Author:John Hurt

“I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language because of the use of the word "like." "I'm like, he's like" - not "thought," not "as if ."”

Ifs Knows Use Bigs Language Difficulty Contemporary English Language

Author:Toni Morrison

“I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it. If I have difficulties in the writing, I just go and do other things. I don't feel a compulsion to write.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Writing Mean Hard Struggle Battle Difficulty Lazy Compulsion

Author:Wole Soyinka

“I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and I have a feeling that if you encountered difficulty, and I with my age encountered the same difficulty, I would respond one way, and you would respond another. Neither would be right or wrong. It's just that each of us is courageous, and that's what I encourage, courage, and the courage to see, and the courage to say to oneself what one has seen. Don't be in denial.”

Ifs Thinking Way Different Feelings Would Be Age Difficulty Oneself One Way Denial Courageous

Author:Maya Angelou

“In matter-ism (materialism), there can be nothing wrong with the world since there is no right way for the world to be in the first place. Everything is just matter in motion and that's that. In Mind-ism (monism) there's a different route to the same problem. There cannot be a problem of evil, even in principle, since in Mind-ism even morality is maya; illusion. In neither story, then (if we're to be consistent with their principles), can the issue of evil be raised. But in real life the problem comes up all the time. That's the difficulty.”

“If I am facing problems and difficulties and I find an answer, I am very eager to share it with someone else. It kind of makes going through the problems or difficulties worthwhile.”

Ifs Kind Problem Answers Share Difficulty Worthwhile

Author:Vonette Bright

“If you ask me the image of Latin America, there are sorne countries which oppress their peoples much more, and among the less - least oppressive, among those with which we could have perfectly normal relations without any difficulties - we could have Uruguay, Chile, maybe Costa Rica. But the U.S.. do not permit us.”

Ifs Country America Asks Normal Difficulty Relation Ask Me Latin Permit Latin America Chile Perfectly Normal Costa Rica

Author:Che Guevara

“In the United States, if you ask teachers, "Are there children whom we should call 'gifted?'", many if not most will say 'No.' That's the politically correct answer. But if you then ask the teacher to rank order students in terms of how well they paint or write or dance, they'll have little difficulty in doing so.”

Ifs Should Writing Wells Children Littles States Order Asks Term Answers United United States Teacher Students Difficulty Paint Gifted Politically Correct

Author:Howard Gardner

“You don't achieve anything by stopping at the first sign of difficulty. If we'd stopped after Dieppe in World War II, where would we be right now as a nation? If we'd stopped before Vimy Ridge, we wouldn't have been a nation at all. Yes, you've got to know when to say "stop" as a leader, you sure do, but you've also got to know when to push for the final thing that's going to give you the full benefit.”

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Author:Rick Hillier

“I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.”

Ifs Sometimes Half Quiet Difficulty Disappear Suspects Imaginary

Author:Robert Staughton Lynd

“Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.”

Ifs Life Believe Death Difficulty Sentences Deep Down Death Sentence Simulacrum

Book:Cool memories

Source: Cool memories

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.”

Ifs Long Known Journey Difficulty Long Journey

Author:Dan Rather

“The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.”

Source: Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.”

Ifs Men Art Ideas Poet Difficulty Inherent

Author:Paul Valery

“You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.”

Ifs Knows Humans Mean Stills Matter Facts Happens Spiritual Challenges Teacher Planets Difficulty Coaches Trials Ministers Immune Living On Spiritual Teachers

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.”

Ifs Needs Enough Sleep Quality Difficulty Experts Appropriate Basics Hygiene Good Quality Enough Sleep

Author:Andrew Weil

“If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.”

Ifs Knows Way Has Beens Art Ideas Moments Earth Creativity Source Difficulty Present Moment New Ways New Ideas Slow Down Slowing

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically part of them. That must be why we have so much trouble returning borrowed books. It's not exactly theft (of course not, we're not thieves, what are you implying?); it's simply a slippage in ownership or, better still, a transfer of substance. That which belonged to someone else becomes mine when I look at it. And if I like what I read, naturally I'll have difficulty giving it back.”

Ifs Way Giving Looks Children Stills Book Fall Courses Trouble Mines Claims Difficulty Lays Possession Substance Thieves Ownership Theft Transfers Borrowed Implying

Author:Daniel Pennac

“It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.”

“If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.”

Ifs Made Order Loss Accepting Grace Wonderful Difficulty Gentle Recognizing Unwelcome

Author:Kathleen Norris

“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”

“How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.”

Ifs Knows Needs Humans Spiritual Desire Grief Sky Perfection Difficulty Blue Plant Workers Seeds Flying Being Human Hoe

Author:Rumi

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”

Source: The Origin of the Nation: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights and Other Amendments, Federalist Papers & Common Sense: Creating America - Landmark Documents that Shaped a New Nation

“To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will - we all do... If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win."”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Mean Use Bigs Winning Path Talent Difficulty Obstacles Barriers Think Big Stop Trying Can't Win

Author:Benjamin Carson