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“No matter what difficulty you are facing, it is coming from Divine Light to bring you to a higher place within. Write down every conceivable reason that this situation can contribute towards your growth. Write down every way this experience can possibly set the stage for serving to uplift others. When you are complete, and have come to the other side of this experience, you will then know 'why' it happened.”

Knows Way Writing Matter Reason Light Sides Growth Situation Happened Stage Divine Higher Difficulty No Matter What Uplifting Serving Divine Light

Author:Barbara Rose

“One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.”

People Thinking Believe Stills Reason Moving I Believe Half Broken Difficulty Affection Fixed Quantity Tides Going Out Allowance Friendship Broken

Author:Freya Stark

“Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason.”

Men Needs Littles Reason Whole Political Individual Interest Media Particular Mass Difficulty Satisfaction Selling Appeals Aspiration Sensible Embodiment Mass Media

Author:Herbert Marcuse

“One of the reasons why I, 'a medical man' decided to give up medicine was a firm conviction of the extraordinary influence on health of pleasurable excitement, especially when combined with fresh air and exercise. How frequently have I, with great difficulty, persuaded patients who were never off my doorsteps to take up golf, and how rarely, if ever, I have seen them in my consulting room again.”

“Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.”

Knows Firsts Humans Mean Littles Persons Reason Difficult Human Beings Happened Events Difficulty Things Happen Memoir Reason Why

Book:Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings

Source: Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings

“One of the reasons we experience so much difficulty with our gifts is that parents have thought their chief function in life is to be feeding, clothing and educating the young. However, their really important ministry is to listen to their children and enable them to uncover the special blueprint that is theirs.”

Children Important Reason Young Life Is Parent Special Function Difficulty Chiefs Clothings Ministry Feeding Blueprints Educating The Young

Book:Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them

Source: Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them

“One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.”

Years Wells War Reason Fall Speak Loss Difficulty England Strikes Disaster Empires Fall Back Through The Years

Author:Norman Mailer

“If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on the nature of God and man, enlightenment that the latter lacks. Now, this is not at all the case; for Christianity, instead of clarifying, gives rise to an infinite multitude of obscurities and difficulties.”

Ifs Men Giving Reason Would Be Christian Natural Christianity Cases Atheism Offers Enlightenment Difficulty Infinite Positive Atheism Former Latter Multitudes Obscurity Clarifying

Author:Denis Diderot

“Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was … that some people can do sums. … It is in virtue of the intellect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people.”

“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

“The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always produce the outcomes. Similar outcomes can occur for reasons other than the person's actions, which further complicates inferential judgment. Effects that arise independently of one's actions distort the influence of similar effects produced by the actions, but only on some occasions. Given a strong cognitive set to perceive regularities, even chance joint occurrences of events can be easily misjudged as genuine relationships of low contingent probability”

“Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.”

Two Reason Habit Difficulty

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.”

Reason Able Evil Atheism Creation Eternity Difficulty Atheist Scholar Hypothesis Inevitability Misguided Recourse

Author:Voltaire

“Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.”

World Reason Would Be Faith Difficulty Endure Lit Equanimity

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.”

Giving Should Soul Reason Desire Prayer Love Is Love You Giving Up And Love Difficulty Satisfaction Your Soul Ease Never Giving Up Persevere

Book:The Prayers of Saint John of the Cross

Source: The Prayers of Saint John of the Cross

“In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.”

People Men Has Beens Reason Law Purpose Known Wise Divine Authority Importance Difficulty Accepted Remarkable Submit Evident Resorts

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“I find it very annoying that so many animal advocates talk about the difficulty of being vegan. Many animal advocates are inclined to make the issue their suffering and not the animals' suffering, and I suppose that accounts for part of the reason that veganism is portrayed as such a "sacrifice." And many animal advocates are not vegans, or are "flexible vegans," which means that they do not observe veganism at all or not consistently, and emphasizing the supposed difficulty of veganism is part of justifying their own behavior.”

Mean Reason Suffering Animal Issues Sacrifice Behavior Accounts Difficulty Vegan Annoying Consistently Flexible Veganism Animal Suffering

Author:Gary L. Francione

“If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.”

Ifs Made Two Reason Order Heaven Direct Difficulty Solve Useless Contradiction Compelled Chimera

Author:Denis Diderot

“If some should accuse us as if we held that people born before the time of Christ were not accountable to God for their actions, we shall anticipate and answer such a difficulty. We have been taught that Christ is the first-begotten of God, and we have declared him to be the Logos of which all mankind partakes. Those, therefore, who lived according to reason (logos) were really Christians, even though they were thought to be atheists, such as, among the Greeks, Socrates, Heraclitus and others like them.”

People Ifs Should Firsts Has Beens Reason Action Christian Christ Born Answers Mankind Taught Difficulty Atheist Greek Anticipate Logos

Author:Justin Martyr

“A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.”

Reason Stories Difficult Poor Difficulty Difficult Things Good Story

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“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

“Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is the reason there's any Story at all.”

Reason Stories Problem Christian Pain Suffering Evil Trouble Conflict Difficulty Tragedy Hardship Problem Of Evil Pain Suffering

Author:Greg Koukl

“The difficulty in today's world is our technology and science has outrun our theological advances. The reason for that is in technology and science, we have had the courage to ask the single question that theology has been afraid to ask: "Is it possible that there's something I don't know about this, the knowing of which would change everything?"”

World Reason Technology Difficulty Theology Theological

Author:Ricky Ray

“I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.”

Firsts Littles Has Beens Two Reason Film Literature Given Reader Difficulty China Instance Chinese

Author:Salman Rushdie

“For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.”

Giving Firsts Wells Reason Problem Poor Benefits Difficulty Educational Debt Income Extras Addresses Pounds Breakdown Poor Health

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.”

“I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.”

Reason Remember Certain Opinion Taught Masters Difficulty Extremes Deny Taught Us

Book:Gulliver's Travels - Literary Touchstone Edition

Source: Gulliver's Travels - Literary Touchstone Edition

“Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope.”

Reason Purpose Challenges Understood Tests Bases Difficulty Trials Mortals Uplifting This Life Hope And Faith

Author:James E. Faust

“Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.”

Reason Character Facts Understanding Kings Difficulty Posterity Unfaithful Chaste Capricious

Book:ALEXANDRE DUMAS Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels & Adventure Classics: Queen Margot, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit, The Conspirators, The Hero of the People, The Queen’s Necklace…

Source: ALEXANDRE DUMAS Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels & Adventure Classics: Queen Margot, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit, The Conspirators, The Hero of the People, The Queen’s Necklace…

“He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.”

Mind Humans Reason Understanding Loneliness Solitude Capable Difficulty Absolutes Spokes Sophisticated Impossibility Misunderstood Straws

Book:Man Walks Into a Room

Source: Man Walks Into a Room

“Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want”

“No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?”

Ifs Should Reason Running Passion Jesus Ambition Difficulty Surrender Running Away Commandments Communion Resisting Animosity Disobeying

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or any worldly motive, profess or pretend to believe what they do not believe, nor can give any reason for believing, they unship the helm of their morality, and being no longer honest to their own minds they feel no moral difficulty in being unjust to others.”

Men Giving Feels Mind Believe Reason Lasts Religion Belief Moral Atheism Honest Fashion Morality Difficulty Prejudice Motive Hypocrisy Customs Unjust Worldly Degenerates Helm

Book:The Age of Reason, etc

Source: The Age of Reason, etc

“Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.”

Source: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

“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

“No guarantees come with children's liberation. But neither the promise of great benefits to all nor the prediction of great difficulties ahead can serve as the reason for granting or denying rights to children. Rights will be granted because without them children are incapacitated, oppressed, and abused.”

Children Reason Rights Promise Benefits Difficulty Oppression Granted Liberation Guarantees Oppressed Predictions Abused Children

Author:Richard Farson

“Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.”

Ifs Knows Needs Reason Done Problem Passion Wish Difficult Interest Economic Ignorance Solutions Capitalism Difficulty Inertia Confronting Economic Problems

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.”

Men Reason Enough Political Used Virtue Findings Difficulty Reason Why Royal Clue Outstanding

Author:Aristotle

“Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.”

“That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want to do it. They have become writers out of reasons of ambition. It must be a great strain to them to make marks on a page when they really have nothing much to say, and don’t enjoy doing it. I’m not so sure what I have to say but I certainly enjoy making sentences.”

Thinking Want Writing Reason Enjoy Ambition Pages Concerned Difficulty Mark Sentences Myth Block Strain Writer's Block Famous Writers

Author:Gore Vidal

“I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... For myself, as no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneous liberation from a certain political and economic system, and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.”