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“Psychedelics are extraordinary tools, when used with psychotherapy, because in one day you can let go of so much, and have insight into so much. Sometimes more than in a year of traditional psychotherapy. I think they should be used in psychotherapy. But I don't know who should be entrusted with the toolbox - priests or psychiatrists? That is the difficulty.”

Thinking Knows Should Years Sometimes Used One Day Letting Go Tools Difficulty Extraordinary Insight Traditional Priests Psychiatrist Psychotherapy Toolbox

Author:Laura Huxley

“It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.”

People Knows Wells Overcoming Difficulty Blame Charity Neighbor Cease Best Things Strict Boundless Lenient

Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence

“The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me.”

Knows Moments Grief Essence Difficulty Medicine Sickness Beaten Kill Me I Trust You Checkmate

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.”

Knows Men Children States Know How Risk He Man Healthy Men And Women Overcoming Difficulty Clean Triumph Ease Endeavor Toil Vigorous Healthy Life Shirk

Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.”

Knows Mind Doe Process Truth Is Commitment Difficulty Sufficient

Book:Essence With the Elixir of Enlightenment: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization

Source: Essence With the Elixir of Enlightenment: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization

“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

“Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.”

Knows Giving Art I Can Giving Up Difficulty Notion Despite Nobility

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“I think I'm up for not trying to play a literary heroine. I think I'd rather just do someone that has just been created in a script, rather than in a book that everyone knows and loves. The difficulty with it and the reason these characters are so loved is that every woman and man that reads it understands it in a different way. They're so relatable, but different aspects will be drawn from different people.”

People Thinking Knows Men Way Trying Book Different Reason Play Character Men And Women Aspect And Love Difficulty Scripts Different Ways Different Peoples Relatable Heroines

Author:Lily James

“Well, at the time, we certainly regarded them [Elianor and Franklin Roosevelt] as partners. We did not know what has since come out about the difficulties of their marital life, or the problems that Franklin gave Eleanor and his mother gave Eleanor, in many respects. We didn't know much about that.”

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Author:William A. Rusher

“Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The difficulty is that as an outsider, you know you're too ignorant for your own good, and so the urge to keep researching and *never* start writing is pretty strong.”

Knows Writing Use Courses Strong Information Difficulty Ignorant Urges Outsiders

Author:Paolo Bacigalupi

“When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.”

Knows Said Self Easy Difficult Difficulty Advise

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“I understand that there are forms of entertainment that can make people weep or jazz them up so they feel like they have had an experience. But I also know that an hour later that's faded and you are back to the difficult realities of your own life. And we need to help people know how to go beyond those difficulties to a place where God dwells.”

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Author:Parker J. Palmer

“[Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think it made Camus more tolerant because he had already seen both sides of things when the others had only ever seen one. They imagine poverty, but they don't know what it is. In fact they've got a sort of bad conscience about the working classes.”

Thinking Knows Made Facts Sides Class Poverty Imagine Position Conscience Difficulty Working Class Both Sides Comprehending

Author:Catherine Camus

“Think the very fact that somebody like Mike Pence is seen as useful to the [Donald] Trump campaign would be analytically a sign of difficulty for him because, you know, the Republican Party over the last two decades has needed to include his support among women, among Latinos, among blacks, among young people, and among highly educated people.”

People Thinking Knows Two Facts Would Be Lasts Young Party Support Trump Needed Republican Difficulty Decades Campaigns Educated Republican Party Mike Latino Like Mike

Author:Mark Colvin

“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

“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.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Firsts Has Beens War Nations Leader Achieve Right Now Benefits Difficulty Finals War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Stopping Ridges

Author:Rick Hillier

“Part of my message is that God never said that we weren't going to have difficulties, but you know what, He said to stay full of joy and I'm going to help you overcome. So I think that is what resonates with people and helps draw so many people. Because it is not a message that you are barely going to make it, you're a victim. We are not victims, we are victors.”

People Thinking Knows Said Helping Joy Messages Draws Overcoming Difficulty Victim

Author:Joel Osteen

“I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“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'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

“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.”

“No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.”

Knows Persons Hate Lows I Hate Difficulty Shoes Complaining

Author:Abigail Adams

“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

“They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.”

Source: Heart of Darkness

“Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.”

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.”

Knows Writing Firsts Ideas Inspiration Form Desire Night Pleasure Particular Masters Difficulty Bounds Affair Committed Delight Obsession Enthusiasm Idleness Love Affair

Author:Natalie Clifford Barney

“Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?”

Source: Perfect You

“But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients”

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes”

Ifs Knows Made Two Facts Might Four Easier Prove Difficulty Holmes

Book:Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear

Source: Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear

“For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.”

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Book:Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel

Source: Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel

“...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness”

Knows Difficulty Depth God Knows Seriousness Complication

Author:Julian Barnes

“Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Firsts Persons Important Book Path Like You Reader Praying Please Difficulty Impress

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-”

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Author:Mark Twain

“A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.”

Source: The Works of Charles Kingsley

“Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. We are not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it.”

“To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.”

Thinking Knows Inspirational Doe Motivation Knowledge Learning Training Difficulty Mindset Frustrated Appease Chinese Philosopher Deep Life

Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching

“Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't really understand the beat... I know musicians who don't and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.”

People Thinking Knows Important Play Musician Beats Difficulty Dancing Dance Communicate

Author:Duke Ellington

“We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.”

“If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.”

People Ifs Knows Cases Self Esteem Difficulty Majority Core Esteem Despise Worthless Unlovable

Author:Carl Rogers

“The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.”

Knows Self Interest Fame Conscience Difficulty Self Interest

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)

“We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.”

Source: Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

“We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.”

Knows Way Needs Feels Wells Left Prayer Safe Difficulty Prerequisites

Book:Prayer

Source: Prayer

“God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.”

Ifs Knows Matter Situation Judging Overcoming Difficulty Perseverance Christian Inspirational Hard Times Sincerity What Matters God Knows

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That's what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out.”

People Knows Want Heart Littles Helping Action Love Is Sacrifice Willing Difficulty

Author:Cesar Chavez

“Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.”

“Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.”

Knows Doe Science Nature Existence Claims Difficulty Resistance Spite Vacuums

Author:Evangelista Torricelli

“We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.”

Knows Want Real Prove Difficulty Proof

Author:Emile Chartier

“To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science. There is nothing for the investigator to do but go straight on, 'to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason;' to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should it at times resemble a will-o'-the-wisp.”

Knows Should May Reason Light Science Knowledge Research Fairs Criticism Difficulty Gates Inches Up And Down Reproach Adverse Investigators Recoil Wisps

Author:William Crookes

“Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know; for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.”

Knows Littles Doe Book Science Hurt Knowledge Reader Difficulty Worthwhile Concealing

Author:Evariste Galois