Best difficulty & realizing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook

“Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.”

Heart Moments Realizing Decision Painting Demand Weakness Difficulty Steel Finishing

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.”

Inspirational Order Realizing Existence Activity Capacity Difficulty Adversity

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Once you realize that it is impossible to capture the character of the various manifestations of nature by pictorial means, and that an interpretation based on imagination is equally erroneous, you will not find yourself facing a gaping void as you might have feared.”

Mean Character Might Realizing Imagination Impossible Difficulty Various Manifestation Finding Yourself Interpretation Capture Void Pictorial

Author:Frantisek Kupka

“Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself”

Men Character Realizing He Man Difficulty

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty of the problems, the array of possible answers.”

Ifs Thinking Philosophy Problem Realizing Answers Difficulty

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“Realizing who we are and what we may become assures us that with God nothing really is impossible. From the time we learn that Jesus wants us for a Sunbeam until we learn more fully the basic principles of the gospel, we are taught to strive for perfection. It is not new to us then to talk of the importance of achievement. The difficulty arises when inflated expectations of the world alter our definition of greatness.”

“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

“I think that the resistance against Darwin is not just the difficulty of seeing the power of a spectacularly beautiful explanation: it is the fear of realizing the extraordinary power that such an explanation has in shattering rests of old world views.”

Thinking World Beautiful Realizing Views Seeing Difficulty Extraordinary Resistance Explanation World View Old World Shattering

Author:Carlo Rovelli

“Difficulties are not interruptions to our journey; they are part of it, as if they're part of the weave of the cloth of our lives. They weave in and become an essential part of the whole. Because the more challenges we face, the more capable we realize we are and the less there is to fear.”

Ifs Whole Faces Realizing Challenges Our Lives Journey Essentials Capable Difficulty Interruptions Challenges We Face

Author:Kimora Lee Simmons

“A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.”

Men Inspirational Character Motivational Realizing Challenges Effort Special Difficulty Adversity Overcoming Challenges Attractiveness

Book:The Edge of the Sword

Source: The Edge of the Sword

“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

“As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going through, and I realize how painful it must have been for you to move on.”

Writing Has Beens Moving Lost Realizing Struggle Difficulty Painful Ghost Loved And Lost

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“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.”

“Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well.”

“Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty. Why is this so? 1) Lack of desperation (realizing our dependence on God), 2) The wrestlings of the flesh, 3) Lack of faith to believe not only that God hears us but that He will move on our behalf.”

People Believe Moving Realizing Hours Prayer Praying Difficulty Flesh Wrestling Dependence Desperation Behalf Lack Of Faith Dependence On God

Author:David Wallace

“White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.”

People Men Stills Seems Might Realizing Justice White Difficulty Social Justice Progressive White Man

Book:Land of the Spotted Eagle

Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle

“The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn't there a difficulty of saying 'we'? You cannot speak for me. I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say 'I'; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.”

Knows Way Said Two Speak Realizing Know How Movement Difficulty East Liberation Novelists Phrases Collectives

Author:Adrienne Rich

“Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.”

Facts Realizing Our Lives Difficulty Life And Death No Fear Fear Of Death Have No Fear

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.”

People Believe Might Found Language Realizing Heard Difficulty Chiefs New Things Translate Habitual

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“You know, this dialogue is only helpful when we come, both of us, to a point where we realize that no dialogue is possible, that no dialogue is necessary. When I say understanding or seeing, they mean something different to me. Understanding is a state of being where the question isn't there any more. There is nothing there that says, "Now I understand!" That's the basic difficulty between us. By understanding what I am saying, you are not going to get anywhere.”

Knows Mean Different States Language Understanding Realizing Seeing Difficulty Dialogue Helpful

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

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