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“The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at times in order to empower it. By this he actually values his life more than the man who fears losing his life. It is much like leaping from a window in order to avoid a fire yet in that most crucial moment knowing that God will appear to catch you.”

Source: Killosophy

“But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.”

Source: Kora in Hell: Improvisations

“One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste.”

Source: The Thinking Reed

“There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.”

Want Real Knowing Difficulty Invisible Midst Hardship Thrill

Author:Errollyn Wallen

“The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.”

Men Enjoy Hours Results Knowing Wise Difficulty Attachment

Book:Suicide: A Study in Sociology

Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology

“The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.”

Effort Knowing Greater Difficulty Not Knowing

Book:The Successful Drawing

Source: The Successful Drawing

“I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.”

Sometimes Knowing Difficulty Perseverance Quitting Refusal Formidable

Book:The Tea Rose

Source: The Tea Rose

“I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.”

Feels Writing Trying Action Found Felt Emotion Knowing Happened Taught Difficulty

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.”

Source: True Education

“Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.”

Wells Whole Religious Knowing Difficulty Administration Nevertheless Resorts Reliance God Knows Reliance On God

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.”

Knows Love Trying Know How Knowing Cutting Fields Highest Jokes Difficulty Mark Lowest Artillery

Book:3 Books by Laurence Sterne

Source: 3 Books by Laurence Sterne