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“Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.”

Ifs Feelings Inspiration Faces Humanity Loses Kindness Survival Bases Difficulty Love And Kindness

Book:Kindness, Clarity, and Insight

Source: Kindness, Clarity, and Insight

“Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.”

Ifs Would Be Spiritual Difficulty Resistance

Author:Nilakanta Sri Ram

“I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect. Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth. Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.”

“Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time on the primary difficulties, which appear now as severe as in the first centuries which noticed them. We would have the experience of assured phenomena, which would serve as principles for a solid reasoning; truth would not be so deeply sunken; nature would have taken off most of her envelopes; one would see the marvels she contains in all her individuals.”

“Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits, to unravel all difficulties. What if it were suggested that the brick-built Pyramid of Hawara had been laid brick by brick by a single workman? Given time, this would not be beyond the bounds of possibility. But Nature, like the Pharaohs, had greater forces at her command to do the work better and more expeditiously than is admitted by Uniformitarians.”

Ifs Science Used Given Force Nature Greater Possibility Masters Keys Fit Built Difficulty Rate Bounds Command What If Bricks Pyramids Insufficient Workmen Pharaohs

Author:Joseph Prestwich

“I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.”

Ifs Faces Deals Havens Mets Difficulty Hopeless Recognizing

Author:Chuck Close

“The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum so unreservedly. . . . And 2nd, it is not clear to me why, if continual physical conditions are of so little moment as you suppose, variation should occur at all. However, I must read the book two or three times more before I presume to begin picking holes.”

Ifs Should Littles Two Book Moments Science Three Clear Conditions Criticism Difficulty Holes Unnecessary Three Times Variation Loaded Objections Adopting Little Moments

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Motherly love is not much use if it expresses itself only as a warm gush of emotion, delicately tinged with pink. It must also be strong, guiding and unselfish. The sweetly sung lullaby; the cool hand on the feverd brow, the Mother's Day smiles and flowers are only a small part of the picture. True mothers have to be made of steel to withstand the difficulties that are sure to beset their children.”

“The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties”

Ifs States Certain Company Economic Fashion Degrees Capitalism Economics Difficulty Moved Contrary Adapted Administrative Economic Freedom Quirks French Fashion

Book:Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce

Source: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce

“Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is....Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of an industrial civilization will have no great difficulty in coping with it-that is, of course, if their ability to use energy and to produce is not crippled by the environmental movement and by government controls otherwise inspired.”

Ifs Facts Use Government Courses Energy Ability Movement Produce Citizens Civilization Difficulty Threat Response Environmental Inspired Global Warming Environmentalism Coping Crippled

Author:George Reisman

“Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.”

Ifs Knows Needs Reason Done Problem Passion Wish Difficult Interest Economic Ignorance Solutions Capitalism Difficulty Inertia Confronting Economic Problems

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“If everything is noted, all your emotional difficulties will disappear. When you feel happy, don't get involved in happiness. When you feel sad, don't get involved with it. Whatever comes, don't worry, just be aware of it.”

Ifs Feels Freedom Worry Emotional Inspire Involved Difficulty Disappear Get Involved

Author:Dipa Ma

“(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any Persons at all upon a necessity of making such an Option, wherein if they choose amiss, the Misery they incur must be irrevocable.”

Ifs Persons Lying Hell Goodness Eternal Difficulty Misery Torment Irrevocable Goodness Of God

Author:Samuel Clarke

“If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.”

“The truth is if I had a gay son, I would love him just as much as if he was straight… I might have to try to love even more because I know of the difficulty that he would have in society.”

Ifs Knows Trying Might Son Truth Is Gay Difficulty Lgbt Gay Son

Author:Tracy Morgan

“[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.”

Ifs Men Mind Force Changed Sweet Perfection Difficulty

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“When Mr. Miyamoto says easy, he doesnt mean simple. He means easily -- this is the difficulty of the language here. Its accessible, and you know how to do things, if not necessarily what to do. You may have a series of puzzles to figure out, and it may be difficult to decipher the meaning, but its not difficult to accomplish what you need to do.”

Ifs Knows Needs May Mean Language Easy Difficult Simple Know How Figures Difficulty Series Accomplish Puzzles Decipher

Author:Eiji Aonuma

“Unless we practice loving feelings toward everyone we meet, day in, day out, we're missing out on the most joyous part of life. If we can actually open our hearts, there's no difficulty in being happy.”

Ifs Heart Feelings Practice Missing Difficulty Joyous Parts Of Life Missing Out

Author:Ayya Khema

“I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Believe Mean Might Enjoy Hours Half Practice Morning Talent Sweet Eating Advantage Difficulty Busy Unusual Dessert Life Means

Author:Jane Addams

“Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.”

Source: Scientific and Miscellaneous Papers

“There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.”

Ifs Want Learning Failure Difficulty Life Learning Learning From Failure Failure Motivational No Failure Risk And Failure

Author:John W. Gardner

“If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.”

People Ifs Life Problem Would Be Common Equal Difficulty Adversity Misfortunes Portions Mind Your Own Business Living Rightly

Author:Socrates

“The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That's where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.”

People Ifs Difficulty Depth Proof Realization Collapse Our Relationship Embodiment Love Relationship Pudding

Author:Adyashanti

“"Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are_God sees that,but for you it is expected to trust in God and pray to Him as best you can,never to fall into despair and to struggle according to your strength.If you ever begin to think you are spiritually_"well off"_then you can know for sure that you aren't!True spiritual life,even on the most elementary level,is always accompanied by suffering and difficulties.Therefore you should rejoice in all your difficulties and sorrows."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Life Should Wells Truth Spiritual Suffering Fall Poor Levels Worry Struggle Too Much Praying Sorrow Despair Difficulty Expected Trust In God Rejoice Spiritual Life

Author:Seraphim Rose

“In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in silence. When you could remember. When the evidence that had gathered could be sorted. And it was a difficulty if another person imagined these moments were their property. Your life got sliced from two sides like a supermarket salami until there was nothing left in the middle. You were the bits that had been given away right and left to others. Because they wanted the piece of you that belonged to them. Because they wanted more. Because they wanted passion. And you did not have it.”

“Approach or come: refers not to the physical act of coming, but to the mental attitude; the heart is mentioned for sincerity. When they sincerely promise not to fight against you, do not pursue them. Remember that if they had fought against you, your difficulties would have been increased. Their neutrality itself may be a great advantage to you. So long as you are satisfied that they are sincere and their acts support their declarations of peace with you, you should not consider yourself justified in pursuing them and warring against them.”

Source: The Meaning of the Holy Qu'ran

“We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful to our call to holiness, and many others. But if we open the door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if we share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will experience the peace and joy that only God, who is infinite love, can give.”

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

“If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.”

Ifs May Wind Difficulty Adversity Foundation Storm Harsh Testimony Icy Withstanding

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble-that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.”

Ifs May Soul Faces Order Father Challenges Break Return Periods Prove Difficulty Foundation Worthy Surface Heavenly Cracks Mortality Testimony Tested Testing Heavenly Father Embedded

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.”

Ifs Should Whole Remember Values Easy Keys Degrees Difficulty Method Investment Complexes Endure Investing Factors Alternatives Dependent Investors Shifting Variables Diving Payoff

Author:Warren Buffett

“I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.”

“If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ourselves to actual conditions, and so fall into many avoidable semantic difficulties. But the so-called normal person practically never abides by his beliefs, and when his beliefs are building for him a fictitious world, he saves his neck by not abiding by them. A so-called "insane" person acts upon his beliefs, and so cannot adjust himself to a world which is quite different from his fancy.”

Ifs World Persons Different Faith Fall Belief Conditions Building Normal Difficulty Insane Fancy Necks Consistent Abiding Asylums Insane Person

Book:Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

Source: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

“Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.”

“If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into.”

Ifs May Asks Talent Difficulty Delight Occupation

Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers.”

“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

“The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.”

Source: The Secret Daily Teachings

“It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner’s work; it doesn’t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Facts Too Much Progress Source Tasks Overcoming Difficulty Remains Disappointment Drawing Working It Faithfulness Disturbed Stunned Miners

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.”

Source: Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit

“Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty.”

Ifs Enough Keys Overcoming Difficulty Golden Persistent

Book:The Golden Key to Prayer

Source: The Golden Key to Prayer

“What is easy and obvious is never valued; and even what is in itself difficult, if we come to knowledge of it without difficulty, and without and stretch of thought or judgment, is but little regarded.”

Ifs Littles Motivation Easy Difficult Judgment Difficulty Obvious

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

“Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.”

Ifs Knows Facts Success Spirit Memories Careers Successful Difficulty Hungry Sufficient Giants Crush Our Memories Successful Business

Author:B. C. Forbes

“But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.”

Ifs Made Spirituality Overcoming Difficulty Supreme

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.”

Ifs Way Want Different Hard Stories Seems Pain Process My Own Demand Creating Understood Difficulty Terror Meaningful Opening Forgiven Opening Up

Author:Dorothy Allison

“I’ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face.”

Source: Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion

“I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand.”

“To make a resolution and act accordingly is to live with hope. There may be difficulties and hardships, but not disappointment or despair if you follow the path steadily. Do not hurry. This is a fundamental rule. If you hurry and collapse or tumble down, nothing is achieved. DO not rest in your efforts; this is another fundamental rule. Without stopping, without haste, carefully taking a step at a time forward will surely get you there.”

Ifs May Effort Steps Path Despair Difficulty Fundamentals Disappointment Resolution Hardship Collapse Stopping Haste

Author:Shinichi Suzuki

“By the time the average person finishes college, he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes, and exams. The right answer approach becomes deeply ingrained in our thinking. This may be fine for some mathematical problems where there is in fact only one right answer. The difficulty is that most of life isn’t this way. Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers- all depending on what you’re looking for. But if you think there is only one right answer, then you’ll stop looking as soon as you find one.”

“Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.”

Ifs Should Looks May Has Beens Done Difficult Painting Difficulty

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.”

Ifs Government Situation Economic Serious Difficulty Isolation Korea North Korea Korean North Korean

Author:Kim Dae-jung

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