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Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

“Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.”

Men Children Use Religion Easy Prayer Atheism Comfort Dolls

Book:The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition

“When you resist doing what you know needs done, it is difficult. Find a mental way to enjoy it, and just do it, and it is easy.”

Knows Way Inspirational Needs Done Inspiration Easy Enjoy Difficult Just Do It Postponing

Author:Joe Vitale

“If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.”

Ifs Men World Way Long Helping Next Easy Knowledge Path This World Brother Anxiety Faults Islam Believer Gods Will Pursue Paradise Remove Resurrection Smooth God Help Destitute

Author:Elijah Muhammad

“It is very easy to see the allure of alcohol to dull the prain and the temptation to punish myself for something that is not my fault. But he sobering truth is that if I step onto the path of self-destruction, I know I will never come back.”

Ifs Knows Self Easy Grief Steps Path Truth Is Destruction Faults Alcohol Temptation Dull Self Destruction Allure

Author:Bill Jenkins

“All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”

Easy Difficult Achieve I Hate Good Things Bad Things Wrestling Easy To Get Confucianism No Hate Difficult And Easy

Author:Morarji Desai

“We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel.”

Fun Easy Perfect Too Much Christmas Anticipation Take It Easy Feasting Tinsel Easy Love

Book:Merry Christmas

Source: Merry Christmas

“One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.”

Ifs World Writing Easy

Author:William Goldman

“You are what you eat. Which makes me cheap, quick and easy.”

Easy Sassy

Author:Dave Thomas

“Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that affection may spur them to their duty, and make them find a pleasure in complying with his dictates. This will bring them with satisfaction to their tutor; make them hearken to him, as to one who is their friend, that cherishes them, and takes pains for their good; this will keep their thoughts easy and free, whilst they are with him, the only temper wherein the mind is capable of receiving new information, and of admitting into itself those impressions.”

Source: Locke, Berkely & Hume

“Life wasn't meant to be easy.”

Easy Party Meant To Be

Book:Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs

Source: Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs

“The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.”

Way Lying Night Easy Views Hell Sky Return Labor Tasks Gates Smooth Cheerful Descent Auras Gates Of Hell

Book:The Aeneid:

Source: The Aeneid:

“Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.”

Sometimes Easy Motive

Author:John Hawkes

“Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy.”

Easy Hell Descent

Author:Virgil

“It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - -there's the rub.”

Easy Steps Hell Air Climbs Back Again

Author:Virgil

“An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.”

Self Christian Easy Christian Inspirational Denying God

Author:Hudson Taylor

“Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.”

“It really is easy to forget the unpleasant if we simply refuse to recall it. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory bank. Let the others fade away. And your confidence, that feeling of being on top of the world, will zoom up-ward. You take a big step forward toward conquering your fear when you refuse to remember negative, self-deprecating thoughts.”

“Setting a field for synchronicity is a matter of putting yourself in a particular state of mind. It is easy to think about synchronicity intellectually, but unless you enter the state of mind where your prayer-field will help, all you will do is glimpse the coincidences every once in a while. In some situations that is enough and you will be led forward for a time, but eventually you will lose your direction. The only way to establish a constant flow of synchronicity is to stay in a state where your prayer field keeps this flow moving toward you--a state of conscious alertness.”

“Reform immigration to make it easy for individuals to come over here, be documented, pay taxes - immigration reform is needed to state that its about work, its not about welfare... Set up a grace period where they can get a work permit... social security card so that they can pay income tax, social security, Medicare.”

States Individual Social Easy Pay Grace Security Needed Periods Taxes Immigration Income Cards Reform Welfare Permit Social Security Income Tax Medicare Immigration Reform

Author:Gary Johnson

“Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.”

Should Easy Good Things Immigration

Author:Gary Johnson

“Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.”

Ifs Persons Soul Body Easy Space Benefits Devil Labor Driving Lust Employment Ease Emptiness Idle Severe Tempted Idleness Creeps Unemployed Chaste Driving Away

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.”

People Children Care Culture Easy Mines Gold Tests Affection Behave Tyrants Dictator Helpless Children Love Incurable Disease

Book:Insecurity of Freedom

Source: Insecurity of Freedom

“If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Easy Jokes

Author:Scott Adams

“It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.”

Men War Government Easy Rulers

Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.”

Easy Born Solitude Solitary Ruthless

Book:Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey

Source: Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey

“When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon carriages of necessary use, such as carts, wagons, etc. the indolence and vanity of the rich is made to contribute in a very easy manner to the relief of the poor, by rendering cheaper the transportation of heavy goods to all the different parts of the country.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps, and come back out into the brightness above, that is the work, that is the labor.”

Political Night Politics Easy Born Steps Darkness Hell Doors Labor Day And Night Brightness Descent

Author:Virgil

“Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.”

Inspirational Hard Easy Money Tubes Saving Money Frugal Toothpaste

Author:Earl Wilson

“Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.”

Use Easy Water Decision Fire Careful Opening Urban Drought Deliberation

Author:Ben Nelson

“Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.”

Hard Easy Knowing Loud

Author:Nicholas Evans

“There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”

Easy Answers Easy Answers

Author:Elizabeth George

“I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.”

Writing Believe Wells May Easy Difficult Willing Don't Believe Horrible Block Writer's Block Writing Well

Author:Dean Young

“Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.”

Ifs Knows Should Girl Easy Masters Please Strict

Book:Outlaw of Gor: Gor

Source: Outlaw of Gor: Gor

“Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.”

Easy Basketball Nervous Coaching Nba Breakdown Paychecks Nervous Breakdown

Author:Pat Williams

“Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. For everyone.”

Hard Easy Dying Easy Living

Author:James Hetfield

“It’s easy to watch someone else’s life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.”

Easy Watches Harder Accidents Crash

Book:Things Change

Source: Things Change

“A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.”

Hard Lying Easy Whirlwind

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore... they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilisation.”

Should Children Long Lasts Easy Natural Access Checks Relief Treatment Hospitals Unemployment Lowest Selection Natural Selection Removal Reproducing Easy Access

Book:Man in the Modern World

Source: Man in the Modern World

“Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not two Christs - an easy going one for easy going Christians, and a suffering one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are we willing to follow His lead?”

Mean Doe Two Christian Suffering Jesus Easy Christ Willing Crosses Following Believer Denial Rejection Persecution Exceptional Footsteps Self-denial Easy Going

Author:Hudson Taylor

“When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.”

People Self Hard God Easy Attitude Aptitude Interacting With Others

Author:John Newton

“I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.”

People Thinking Want Children Important Problem Easy Hours Loss Our Children Brilliant Hearing Loss

Author:Barbara Bush

“Some days it don't come easy Some days it don't come hard Some days it don't come at all And these are the days that never end”

Ends Hard Song Easy

Author:Meat Loaf

“It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing.”

Writing Ideas Soul Stories Dream Remember Night Lost Easy Wake Up Waking Caves One Night Lost Souls

Author:Paul Kane

“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

Hard Easy

Author:Les Brown

“It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it”

Thinking Country Names Easy

Author:Robert Stone

“In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.”

Ifs Thinking Form Easy My Own Talking Subjects Humility Pride Weakness Faults Pursuit Subtle Incessantly

Book:When Heaven Invades Earth

Source: When Heaven Invades Earth

“It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.”

Easy Aspect Debate Healthcare Distracted Easy To Get

Author:Carl Hiaasen

“Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe.”

Thinking Believe Humans Persons Hard Reason Easy Human Beings Effort Endeavor Heroic Domain Innate Refined Wishful Thinking Separating Methodology

Author:Sam Harris

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