“Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.” GeniusDifficultyEdgesOneselfAcknowledgeRecognizing Book:Along the Path to Enlightenment Source: Along the Path to Enlightenment
“Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world, what Stevens called a 'mundo' and it takes a lot of time to orientate oneself in such a world. What we have to learn to do then, as teachers and militants of a poetic insurgency, is to encourage people to learn to love the difficulty of poetry. I simply do not understand much of the poetry that I love.” PeopleWorldMeanReadingDifficultInterestingTeacherPoetDifficultyOneselfPropagandaPoetry IsPoeticDiscoveringInsurgency Author:Simon Critchley
“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.” IfsThinkingWayDifferentFeelingsWould BeAgeDifficultyOneselfOne WayDenialCourageous Author:Maya Angelou
“For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.” DifficultyOneselfCommunicateSupreme Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.” PeopleDifficultHonestHonestyEasierDifficultyOneselfBeing Honest Author:Edward Benson
“Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.” LifeEasyDifficultChangeInspirational LifeDependsBecomingGratitudeDifficultyOneselfChanging Your LifeAdjustmentDifficult LifeThinking Flexibly Author:Morarji Desai