Best difficulty & past Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.”

Giving Long Doe Done Helping Running Past Sin Answers Hell Objects Cost Difficulty Asking Forgiving Doctrine Offering Long Runs Forgiven Alas Miraculous Wipe Fresh Start Calvary Asking God

Author:C. S. Lewis

“This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will go better, but difficulties exist and nothing is served by hiding them under a poetic veil or under a lyricism of the past. I am against slogans.”

Thinking Men Stories Eye Past Cold Difficulty Poetic One Man Pessimism Hiding Veils Casting Slogans Cold Eyes

Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe

“Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.”

People Writing Has Beens Today Past House Memories Marriage Streets Century Fields Difficulty Lips Chiefs Association Echoes English Words

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'”

Mind Whole Past Asks Trouble Difficulty Regard Endurance Unbearable

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Over the past six years I've had many difficulties. But I never lost my passion.”

Years Past Passion Lost Six Difficulty My Passion Over The Past

Author:Robin Li

“Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop—to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.”

Helping Problem Running Past Healing Worry Learning Meditation Regret Future Despair Difficulty Anger Running Away Carried Away

Book:Walking Meditation

Source: Walking Meditation

“We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions, but we can more easily remember a good story. Stories give life to past experience. Stories make the events in memory memorable to others and to ourselves. This is one of the reasons why people like to tell stories.”

People Giving Writing Reason Stories Past Remember Difficult Memories Events Difficulty Reason Why Memorable Abstract Abstraction Thumbs Good Story Past Experiences

Book:Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence

Source: Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence

“We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better.... or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do.... But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future only exist in our mind. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.... It isn't what you did in the past the will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”

Thinking Mind Humans Done Moments Past Realizing Human Beings Eternity Difficulty Enormous Present Moment Our Future Precise Your Future Past Present And Future Always Thinking

Author:Paulo Coelho

“In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past, and confront the present.”

People Mind Body Past Difficulty Mind And Body Anticipate

Book:Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

Source: Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”

Thinking Wisdom Past Time Change History Cases Quiet Difficulty Obstacles Occasions Civil War Dogma Inadequate Stormy Unschooling Stormy Days

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.”

Hands Past Difficulty Fighter

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.”

Past Speak Forget Doubt Achievement Difficulty Track Painful Discouragement Forget The Past

Author:Ethel Barrymore

“I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.”

People Needs Years Stills Two Shows Past Areas Concerned Difficulty Two Years Evident Jubilee

Author:Bhumibol Adulyadej

“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.”

“I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.”

Looks Sometimes Past Realizing Conscious Difficulty Astonishment

Book:Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek

“I'm an optimist. I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past. And I also believe I have a role in that. The great thing about human beings, myself in particular, is that I can change. I can do better. If you can get up every day, stay optimistic, and believe the future is better than the past, those few things get you through a lot of tough times.”

“No matter how many mistakes you've made in the past, or what sort of difficulties you struggle with now, you are destined to live in victory.”

Source: Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day

“Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving”

Past Leader Records Mets Difficulty Defeat Temporary Great Leader Arriving Temporary Defeat Outwitting

Author:Napoleon Hill

“The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.”

Has Beens Reality Past Church Half Leader Teacher Difficulty Saint Occasions Denial Tragic Mixtures Plausible Omission Half Truth Platitudes Church Leaders

Author:D. Michael Quinn

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